Quotes for All
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the … Read more
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. Edward Abbey
Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O’Connor
Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was lucrative as any airliner hijacking in history. Though writing those four books was hard work, at least I didn’t have to wear Kevlar body armor, carry heavy bandoliers of spare ammunition, or work … Read more
I’ve been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller – my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that’s going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen’s lavatory. David Niven
Excellence is THE trend of the ’80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you’ll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at … Read more
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A best seller is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness. Daniel J. Boorstin
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible ‘The World’s Best Seller.’ And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa. Daniel J. Boorstin
God is the celebrity author of the world’s best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness. Daniel J. Boorstin
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. Daniel J. Boorstin