“A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.”

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)”

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”

“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.”

“People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard" or poke at a book because it's "romance" or "genre fiction" and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it... well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait.”