Top 30 Indie Writers Quotes
#1. Novels are read
Or their authors are blue.
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Cheri Gillard
#2. Indie writers who promote their book instead of writing the next book are wasting their time. The more books you've written, the more books you'll sell. That's how it works. That's how it's always worked.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
#3. What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
Isabel Wilkerson
#4. I like to believe that there is an extra warm corner of hell for these fuckers who traffic in emotional misery.
Craig Ferguson
#5. Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now ...
Belle Whittington
#6. I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
Barney Frank
#8. All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to publish legal fiction, and readers should have the freedom to read what they want.
Mark Coker
#9. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
Muddy Waters
#10. It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.
Ryan Adams
#11. It's the worst idea in the world that I love you like this. But I can't stop. Believe me, I've tried.
Cassandra Clare
#12. 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
#13. My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.
Nenia Campbell
#14. 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
#15. Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.
Eveli Acosta
#16. happy, whole people are drawn to happy, whole people, but nothing makes a toxic person more miserable and destructive than a happy, whole person. Unhappy people do not like it when a fellow unhappy person becomes happy.
Shonda Rhimes
#17. I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
Fredrik Bajer
#18. 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
#19. Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
Jeff Daniels
#20. 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
#21. Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
Eveli Acosta
#22. Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?
Earl Nightingale
#24. Hey, Bogart. You and the wonder twins back off or the bedsheet gets it.
Harry Dresden, Death Masks.
Jim Butcher
#25. She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.
Eveli Acosta
#26. Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.
Caroline Leavitt
#27. The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#28. Don't do that with me," he replied, staring down at me with a look of almost hunger on his face. "We're too much alike to pretend with each other. At least when we're alone, lets be who we truly are.
Sara B. Larson
#29. To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#30. He only shows mankind how beautiful everything is which man's hand has not yet spoiled or broken.
Friedrich Max Muller
