Seller Quotes

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.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

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

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

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.

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