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

I'm usually pretty insecure.

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable.

Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

I'm really insecure about everything.

I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.

I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

I'm very insecure.