Senin, 15 September 2008

The Best-selling Novelist of All Time

Dame Barbara Cartland (7/1/1901 - 5/21/2000) completed a novel every two weeks, publishing more than 723 novels, which sold more than 1 billion copies in 36 languages, making her the best-selling novelist of all time.

The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.

"The pen is mightier than the sword."
English novelist and dramatist Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)