Indie Writing Quotes & Sayings

The Revolution won't be televised. It's already available on Amazon in ebook format. — Kenya Wright

Although erotica authors are being targeted, this is an issue that should concern all indie authors. It affects indies disproportionately because indies are the ones pushing the boundaries of fiction. Indies are the ones out there publishing without the (fading) protective patina of a "traditional publisher" to lend them legitimacy. We indies only have each other. — Mark Coker

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

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

Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts. — Rayne Hall

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

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

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

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer. — Tom Conrad

My spirit is free. My heart is taken. — Crystal Woods

And so many of the indies have partnered with Google to sell ebooks right from their own websites. These stores are embracing the "new technology" instead of hiding from it, because they realize it's about the story, not the ink on paper. If you want ebooks, your local indie can sell you ebooks. If your local independent is hanging up posters saying that ebooks will kill everything, you should tag that bookstore as a favorite in your GPS doohickey. You'll get great deals, because that store will have a going-out-of-business sale soon. Yes, even though you try to save it with a letter-writing campaign. — Steve Weddle

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

The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced. — Karen Walton

It's the witching hour once more-
When the Muse comes out to play.
He calls me through that magic door-
Where galaxies of worlds await! — Belle Whittington

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over. — Henry Rollins

Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some will love it and some will hate it, but there will always be at least one reader who needed it and that's all that matters! — S.L. Morgan

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

Golden Heart finalist in the prestigious RWA writing contest. Finalist in the International Digital Awards Semi-finalist in the Best Indie Books of 2012. A featured — E. Ayers

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

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

Write like no one is reading. — Crystal Woods

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

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

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

All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie. — Orna Ross

If you can't be of good character, write a good character. — Rosen Trevithick

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn't. — Crystal Woods

Why readers should support indie authors
9/9/2015

Guest post on Maggie James Blog by Samuel Marquis

Readers should support authors of any stripe for only one reason: great writing


"So why should readers support indie and traditional legacy authors? For only one reason: good solid writing. Craftsmanship. Actual hard work, sacrifice, and talent coming together into an amalgam of significance. — Samuel Marquis

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

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