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The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.
Michael Korda / Writer
Iceberg
Tip Of The Iceberg
Bestseller
List
Tip
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Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.
Tim Lahaye / Author
Afterlife
Jerry
Would Be
Bestseller
Hoped
Popular
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'connor / Writer
Funny
Teacher
Good Teacher
Witty
Good Teacher Good Teacher
Bestseller
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
Samantha Shannon / Writer
New York Times
Bestseller
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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 / Singer
Sister
New York Times
No Idea
Bestseller
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Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.
Prue Leith / Television Presenter
Lists
Marketing
Tools
Bestseller
Chefs
Cookbooks
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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 / Author
New York Times
Bestseller
List
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Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
Frank Mccourt / Teacher
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Bestseller
List
Memoirs
So-Called
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'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.
Jay Parini /
Bones
Entertaining
Lists
Novel
Bag
Bestseller
Distorted
Rode
Wonderfully
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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 / Teacher
Amazed
Astounded
Prize
Bestseller
Pulitzer
Sunk
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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 / Author
New York
Government
Book
Bragging
New York Times
Printing
Bestseller
Copied
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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 / Author
New York
Literature
Looks
New York Times
Look New Know
Bestseller
Writers
List
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'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 / Model
Instruments
New York Times
Bestseller
Mortal
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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 / Television Personality
New York
Book
Editors
Former
New York Times
Amateur
Bestseller
Editor
Magazine
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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 /
Ancient
Self Help
Ancient Greeks
Bestseller
Centuries
Greeks
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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 / Writer
New York
Book
Fiction
New York Times
Novel
Anyway
Books
Bestseller
Later
List
Paperback
Several
York
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
New York
New York Times
Bit
Bear
Bestseller
Cross
Saw
List
Pleased
Received
Sold
Surprised
York
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'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 / Comedian
Phenomenon
Bestseller
List
Sold
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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 / Investor
New York Times
Six
Twice
Mistakes
New School High School
Bestseller
Flunked
List
Reach
Rewarding
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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 / Soccer Player
Dream
Book
Buried
Curves
Ahead
Bestseller
Curve
Sewer
Ten Years
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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 /
Chicks
Plans
Bestseller
Guide
Lesbian
Pan
Sleeping
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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 / Consultant
Broadway
Musical
Print
Picture
Bestseller
Catch
Dreamed
Major
Motion
Motion Picture
Published
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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 / Novelist
Accepted
Book
Finished
Finishing
Instant
Males
Shocking
Male
Became
Confident
Bestseller
Critic
Encouraged
Publisher
Right Away
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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 / Author
Science
Compelled
Fantasy
Genre
Nonfiction
Reading
Science Fiction
Variety
Wide
Writing
Science Literature Science Fiction
Bestseller
Climb
Enjoy Reading
Likely
Mysteries
Onto
Science Literature Fantasy
Wide Variety
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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 / Author
Customers
Distribution
Just One
Marketing
Needed
Retail
Support
Bestseller
Case
Sell
National
Piece
Publisher
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You do not know, and the readers cannot tell you, what they might like until they have it. It is one of those things that particularly if you want to be the next wave, well the next wave is not already on the bestseller lists. The next wave is in somebody's head.
Stephanie Laurens / Author
Lists
Wave
Bestseller
Readers
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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 /
Listening
Peter
Prozac
Psychiatrist
Talking
Bestseller
Claimed
Early
Patients
Wrote
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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 /
Bills
Doubt
Feels
Inspire
Pay
Self
Best Great People
Bestseller
Deadlines
Wondering
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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 / Journalist
New York
Book
Enjoyed
Glad
Pages
Printed
Writing
Bestseller
Churchill
Napoleon
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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 / Writer
Book
Fascination
Ignorant
Lit
Names
Paper
Romance
Writing
Bestseller
Chick
List
Mention
New Yorker
Spell
Topic
Yorker
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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 /
History
War
Certain
Civil War
Historical
Military
Narrative
Phases
War History Always
Aspects
Bestseller
Biography
Civil
Generally
Perennial
Story-Telling
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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 /
New York Times
Substitution
Treats
Bestseller
Comparing
Depending
Reporter
Involves
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You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned.
Tony Ross / Illustrator
Concerned
Publication
Publishers
Rate
Rehab
Writer
As Far As
David
Bestseller
Number
Hugely
Spot
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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 / Writer
Moments
New York Times
Pinnacle
Twilight
Waiting
Bestseller
Wait
List
Minute
Pulled
Rug
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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 /
Advice
Book
Following
Heard
Never Forget
Paradox
Plant
Water
Asked
Bestseller
Wild
Carry
Chop
Dr
Joseph
Merely
Replied
So Many Years
Wood
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