How do you write a best-seller?

Answer 1

You don't start out trying to write one.

All you can do is to write the best book you can - if the public falls in love with that book, great! If not, at lease you've created your best, and you will end up having fans.


Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.
Peter S. Beagle
You don't, you just have to hope for the best.