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I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

— Tucker Max

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

— Isabel Allende

Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.

— Lynn Flewelling

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.

— Tucker Max

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

— Cullen Bunn

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

— Wayne Dyer

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

— Mickey Spillane

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

— Sandra Lee