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

The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published. - Marianne Cushing

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. - Virginia Woolf

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. - Mortimer J. Adler

At heart, self-publishing is kind of like a bake sale. The end product does not need to resemble the one that comes from a commercial bakery, but it must taste good. No one wants the lumpy, under-baked oatmeal cookies with spinach and alfalfa flavored chips. - D.C. Williams

If your target audience isn't listening, it's not their fault, it's yours. - Seth Godin

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. - Douglas Adams

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

I certainly love writing books. I’ve always loved writing short stories and novels because in prose, you get all the control. - Maria Headley

It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for. - The Lord of the Rings

May the odds be ever in your favor. - Suzanne Collins

"God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs.""Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.” - Michael Crichton

This is going to take a while. I’m a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. - Brandon Sanderson

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. - Marian Keyes

Every book, ever volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. - Daniel HandlerI believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. - Stephen King

I think new authors are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you. - Asha Dornfest

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

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. - Oscar Wilde