Quotes about books-bestsellers

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clich?s that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

— V. S. Pritchett

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

— Logan Pearsall Smith