Indie Author Quotes & Sayings

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

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

You have to hold on and be patient. Pain lasts for a while, but you must leave room for happiness when you find it. — S.N. Lemoing

Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us. — Melodie Ramone

This is the truth that sets you free: you are who you commit yourself to being, you have what you commit yourself to having, you live as you commit yourself to living. — Anthony Chapman

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

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. — Eveli Acosta

INDIE AUTHOR= A writer growing, learning, developing their trade-set based on skills they are acquiring along their journey. (They are not in training or less professional. They are simply working with their own allowances of income with financial support far from the more broader publisher's stature to try to produce the best quality of work for you the reader.) — Eri Nelson

Writing ain't easy, support your indie author & write a review! — Ben Jackson

Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are. — Erika M. Szabo

People always try to make self-published authors feel insignificant. I have more respect for self-published authors, because I know the adversity they faced. They didn't just write a manuscript, query letter, and blam book deal. These authors had to do it the difficult way. There is no publisher, or agents, investing time, and money into making their book. Just the indie author's manuscript, own currency, and persistence. — Mary Sage Nguyen

She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips. — Eveli Acosta

THAT NIGHT, AT ONE OF LONDON'S OPEN-MIC SESSIONS, A YOUNG comedian enjoyed his first success, telling the tale of the naked Yank who mugged him for a tuxedo. — Anthony Chapman

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast. — Peter James West

I found him between a reality and a nightmare. — Shannon A. Thompson

The ocean swells around us. Sometimes, we are in a bowl of water and sometimes on the top of the lip. The horizon curves.
We are sitting on top of the world.
In theory, anyone is on the top of their world at every moment, given that the Earth is truly round. But, it's hard to see that in a subway under New York City and completely obvious out here. — Lexis De Rothschild

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak. — Michelle M. Pillow

I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death. — Erika M. Szabo

Everyone should have a kid. They really put things in perspective. I know a guy can get you one cheap. — Anthony Chapman

What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of those who go with the flow? — S.N. Lemoing

Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing. — Peter James West

Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his mind. Now there was a war brewing between the Steelwielders and some foreign religion. More mindless loss over beliefs and mythology. But.. he could not deny the noble features in his companions. Although Perfidian was too blithe and Elaina too didactic, they had risked their life to do what was right. He did owe them his life. He could not deny the nobility he saw in many different people, bits and pieces of nobility that shined through under pressure. The guards who risked their lives to protect the villagers, Markham who flew at the dangerous dwarf, swords flashing; even an Eruthian merchant who stopped in his journey to share tales with complete strangers'. — T.P. Grish

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

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry. — Alexei Maxim Russell

My image is who I am, but not what I write. — Brian M.W.

There's a fine line between being brave and just not giving a shit anymore. — Sara Furlong Burr

When one is being driven to the edge, we either fight back or jump — Dino KF Wong

I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.'
'Sometimes?' she added derisively.
'Quite often,' he tempered. — S.N. Lemoing

Being on Facebook as an Author and listing your books is like being a tiny single word in a giant dictionary! If people don't search for you they don't find you. They don't take notice of you. They don't even know you exist! Thats the hard reality of Socialmedia! — Lily Amis

Wrestle with your thoughts until you get them on the page. Nobody can read them until you've written them down. — Peter James West

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

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

If I had followed every urge I ever had, I would have had much more sex and killed a lot more people — Tommy Cotton

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now ... — Belle Whittington

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

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper. — Eveli Acosta

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

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it ... then you're a writer. — Joanne Harris

Content is King. Promotion is Queen — Bob Mayer