So, how did Stephen King succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling coke-fueled torture porn?
So, how did Mickey Spillane succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling misogynistic crime pulps?
So, how did Charles Dickens succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling wordy books about petty tales?
So, how did Jane Austen succeeded & how did she make all that money? By selling girly high-hat romances?
So, how did Dr. Seuss succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling silly stories with made-up words?
So, how did Arthur Conan Doyle succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling books about a detective who can solve anything off of vague guesses and logic that makes no sense?
So, how did Beverly Clearly succeeded & how did she make all that money? By selling kids' books with shallow plots?
So, how did H.G. Wells succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling dull adventure stories featuring one or two futuristic things?
So, how did J.R.R. Tolkein succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling books filled with boring backstory and endless purple prose?
So, how did Agatha Christie succeeded & how did she make all that money? By making up unlikely murder mysteries with cheap solutions?
So, how did Michael Crichton succeeded & how did he make all that money? By writing about dinosaurs and fake science nobody understands?
So, how did William Shakespeare succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling bawdy plays written for cheap British audiences with a dumb sense of humor?
So, how did John Steinbeck succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling depressing stories where bad things happen in a bad world to bad people?
So, how did Ray Bradbury succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling books whining about how the old days were better and technology is evil?
So, how did Shel Silverstein succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling puns with scratchy drawings?
So, how did Isaac Asimov succeeded & how did he make all that money? By selling robot stories?
If you'd like me to keep going, I can also talk about Dean Koontz, Stan Lee, Michael Bay, Neil Gaiman, The Beatles, Stanley Kubrick, Sigmund Freud, and, just for kicks, we can even discuss how Jasper Johns got popular when he's just so gosh darned boring as both an artist and a person.