Indie Writer Quotes

#1. The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able.

R.S. Guthrie

#2. See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

Oliver Goldsmith

#3. A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.

Steven D. Levitt

#4. If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Peter James West

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

Alexei Maxim Russell

#6. I've been having a lot of fun with the Hulk motion-capture stuff, actually. The only distinction that I hold is that I am the only actor to ever play Banner and the Hulk.

Mark Ruffalo

#7. If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

Peter James West

#8. My image is who I am, but not what I write.

Brian M.W.

#9. The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Elvis Presley

#10. Wrestle with your thoughts until you get them on the page. Nobody can read them until you've written them down.

Peter James West

#11. I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

Tom Conrad

#12. Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing.

Peter James West

#13. I am a huge, raving fan of writer Matt Fraction. His semi-indie 'Casanova' series is an ongoing masterpiece of 21st-century American comics - and his run on 'Immortal Iron Fist' with Ed Brubaker was pure, yummy martial-arts-fantasy deliciousness.

Michael Chabon

#14. 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

#15. I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone!

Tom Conrad

#16. Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.

Cesar Aira