Indie Publishing Quotes

#1. The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Wendell Willkie

#2. All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.

Orna Ross

#3. I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#4. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#5. I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

Gary Johnson

#6. Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

Barry Eisler

#7. Release early and often.

Kevin Rose

#8. The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#9. Anyone who says it's easy to self-publish a book is either lying or doing a shitty job.

Nan McCarthy

#10. And I held her, this girl who had saved me and continued to save me every day.

A Meredith Walters

#11. To be professional you need to be professional.

Jayelle Cochran

#12. If you can't be of good character, write a good character.

Rosen Trevithick

#13. Writers can write whatever they want, but after THE END, when they self publish their book, they become accountable to readers for the quality of the book they're selling.

Eeva Lancaster

#14. Books have a publishing standard, and every Indie Author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded.

Eeva Lancaster

#15. Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

Michelle M. Pillow

#16. Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#17. Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.

Rayne Hall

#18. A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood'.

Kate Morton

#19. If you want to succeed in indie publishing, be prepared to work your ass off and demonstrate patience. Writers who aren't willing to do those two things will fail. Period.

Sean Platt

#20. Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

David Chuka

#21. Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you are clearly 'different' and marginalized. I am all of that, yet I am still here and smiling. Life is good!

Kailin Gow

#22. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

#23. Content is King. Promotion is Queen

Bob Mayer