Welcome to Bestseller Quotes, a curated collection of inspirational and thought-provoking excerpts from some of the most renowned bestsellers across various genres. Here, we delve into the profound insights, timeless wisdom, and captivating narratives that have captured the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. Whether you seek motivation, guidance, or simply a moment of reflection, our compilation aims to distill the essence of these literary gems into bite-sized, impactful quotes.
Within these pages, you’ll find words that resonate deeply, offering perspectives on life, love, success, resilience, and everything in between. From celebrated works of fiction to insightful non-fiction treatises, each quote encapsulates the essence of its source material, inviting you to explore the profound depths of human experience and imagination. Whether you’re an avid reader, a casual peruser, or simply someone in search of inspiration, we invite you to embark on a journey through the pages of these timeless classics, distilled into memorable phrases that linger long after the final page is turned.
‘The Rap Year Book’ is really great. Shea Serrano wrote it, and it became this huge phenomenon where he sold out everywhere and made the bestseller list just on the strength of his fans on Twitter wanting him to succeed. Josh Gondelman
‘The Mortal Instruments’ is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular. Godfrey Gao
Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller ‘Self-Help.’ Mary Pilon
‘Game Change,’ the infamous bestseller written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has plagued anyone directly associated with the 2008 election cycle. Meghan McCain
My first book was called ‘Buried Dreams,’ about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy’s mind. Tim Cahill
When ‘Twilight’ hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute – how is this still going up? I’m waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me. Stephenie Meyer
Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list. Frank McCourt
I’m not going to give it the big ‘I am’ now that I’m a New York Times bestseller. Samantha Shannon
I never set out to do this – getting to No. 1 in the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list wasn’t even a pipedream. E. L. James
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards. Charles J. Shields
When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn’t pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn’t pull that off either, and wrote my second book, the national bestseller, ‘The Straight Girl’s Guide To Sleeping With Chicks.’ Jen Sincero
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn’t sunk in. Frank McCourt
I’ll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, ‘The Plant Paradox’ had just come out. He was wild about the book, and apoligized that he had never heard of me before the book. He asked what I had been doing for so many years. I replied that I was merely following the Buddha’s advice to ‘chop wood and carry water.’ Steven Gundry
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you’ll never have to work again, or so the myth goes. Sara Sheridan
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read. Jackie Collins
I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a ‘New York Times’ bestseller. Trisha Yearwood
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. Joan D. Vinge
Unexpectedly, ‘Death’s End’ turned into a major success. It made a much bigger impact than the first two books in the series and became a bestseller. Liu Cixin
When’ Voyager’, the third book of the series, hit the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list, they very honorably redesigned the covers and started calling them fiction. Diana Gabaldon
Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote ‘Talking Back to Prozac’ (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer’s ‘Listening to Prozac’ (1993) – a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients ‘better than well.’ John Cornwell
I really told my story as I saw it in ‘Cross to Bear,’ and I was pleased – and a bit surprised – by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the ‘New York Times’ bestseller list? I’ll take that any day, my man! Gregg Allman
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness. Joseph B. Wirthlin
My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels. Ashwin Sanghi
‘Fallen Too Far’ was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life. Abbi Glines
If you write chick lit, and if you’re a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You’ll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list. Jennifer Weiner
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. Terry Brooks
When ‘Catch Me If You Can’ was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What’s amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. Frank Abagnale
To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution. Tim Ferriss
I wrote a tennis book about Chris Evert and her then-husband, John Lloyd. It was called ‘Lloyd on Lloyd’ and became a No 1 bestseller. Carol Thatcher
B is for bestseller. Mark Haddon
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list. Dave Eggers
I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes. Robert Kiyosaki
You don’t need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller – as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again. Anthony Horowitz
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don’t know each other very well. Anne Rice
For ‘The Bestseller’… there was hardly any research, but I had to give each person a quirk and develop their stories so that it would relate to who they are. Ravi Subramanian
Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write – there’s only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends. Tamora Pierce
I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I’d see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn’t done them fast enough. Lori Greiner
‘Bag of Bones’ was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998. Jay Parini
When I wrote ‘The Rozabal Line,’ I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed ‘The Rozabal Line’ as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work. Ashwin Sanghi
I’ve been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! Matthew Lesko
Don’t do a hard sell or try to tell the agent that you’re going to be a bestseller or the next John Grisham. This goes down very badly. If your work is good, then they are skilled enough to know this within a few pages. Lisa Jewell
There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O’Connor
If I’m writing books, I’m a ‘New York Times’ bestseller – how do I do it all? I don’t know. Farrah Abraham
I know the bestseller ‘Gone Girl’ doesn’t need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come. Jami Attenberg
The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right? Neel Mukherjee
We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller. David A. R. White
I’ll have to self-publish it because unless you’re on the ‘New York Times’ bestseller lists, anthologies don’t sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one! P. N. Elrod
The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg. Michael Korda
There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history – military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what’s generally called narrative history: history as story-telling. H. W. Brands
The New York Times Bestseller ‘The Amateur,’ written by Ed Klein, former editor of the ‘New York Times Magazine,’ is one of the best books I’ve read. Fran Tarkenton
If you’ve read my New York Times bestseller ‘Stonewalled’, you know that I’m a fan of an intellectual exercise I call the Substitution Game. It involves comparing how the press treats similar events or people depending on how the reporter or news organization feels about the issue or the newsmaker. Sharyl Attkisson
If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon’s bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top. Andrew Shaffer
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you’re going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it’s still the best job I’ve ever had. I’ve also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great. Graham Brown
The business model – where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable – is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you’re a huge bestseller. J. A. Konrath
Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They’re in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them. Prue Leith
Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller. Tim LaHaye
I don’t write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words – enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I’m glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie. Paul Johnson