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

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

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 always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.