A Quote by Ravi Subramanian

My understanding is that a book becomes a best seller only when it is pirated, sold on footpaths and at traffic lights.

Ravi Subramanian

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Ravi Subramanian
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

Studs Terkel

If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!

Oleg Romanishin

He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others

Elliot Perlman

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

John Fowles

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

Jerry Pournelle

'The Battle of Dorking' was reprinted as a book and became a best-seller.

Tom Reiss

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

I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn't know at the time that the book would be a best seller or that it would one day inspire a Netflix series. I just needed the money.

Stephanie Land

I think there's a difference between having a bestselling book - meaning through marketing, PR and buying that first wave of customers - and writing a bestselling book. The second implies that the product propels itself to the best seller list.

Tim Ferriss

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Aldous Huxley

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

Taylor Swift

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Leon Uris

Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.

Peter Milligan

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

John Grisham

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