An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON BESTSELLER BOOKS
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the cliches that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965, British novelist, playwright)
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997, British author, critic)
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
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