Indie Quotes

“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, Write like no one is reading 2

“Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“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

“My spirit is free. My heart is taken.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“You’re fearless.”
Draven laughed loudly and shook his head. Zarah frowned and crossed her arms over her chest.
“No, I’m not. Trust me. I’m scared all the time. You scare the living hell out of me.”
Her jaw dropped.
“I scare you?”
“Anyone who isn’t scared of you is insane.”
― Pixie Lynn Whitfield, Darkness Comes This Way

“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

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

“If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Darling,” she said, “we’re a train wreck.”
“Sweetheart,” I said, “train wrecks always make the front page.”
― Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies

“I'm sorry...I just don't know what's wrong with me..”
― JJM

“I hope she has an STD. I hope she has all the STDs known to man, and a few new ones she'd created all on her own.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.”
― Pixie Lynn Whitfield, Darkness Comes This Way

“Zarah, you do know that we are supposed to be a graceful species, don't you?”
― Pixie Lynn Whitfield, Through These Wicked Nights

“What is on that memory stick, if you don’t mind me asking?”
She was following him back into his apartment when he asked, and realized she still clutched it.
“Something I never want to see again.”
― Pixie Lynn Whitfield, Through These Wicked Nights

“I don’t have to convince anyone that I love you.”
― Dominique Eastwick, Killing Lucas

“With the indie kids you have to remember this: they really think that what they do matters in some way. They reckon that history will care. (They don’t know that history will have other shit to be getting on with.) The indie kids figure that they’re passing on the torch or some fucking thing. That, just as they were influenced by someone—the Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, the Stooges, whoever—then, in the future, young bands will be influenced by them. Maybe so. Maybe a few thousand malnourished cockless freaks scattered around the globe will give a shit. So what? Real people don’t..”
― John Niven, Kill Your Friends

“The sea cleanses
the city's rat race
from my pores

Washes away
the anxiety
of wanting
more

Reminds me I am
not here to stay

And being in love
with the pulse
is all”
― Yvette Dulo, She Chose to Love

“I wobbled to the restroom and stood in line for ten minutes. It sucked, because most women were there to powder their noses, and that was precisely the thing I was afraid Alex was going to do when no one was looking.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“Write like the whole world's reading.”
― Lillian White

“A writer without reviews is like racing car without an engine - shows lots of potential but it's never going anywhere.”
― Lillian White

“Don't get stuck on labels. Write, edit, publish and promote. You choose which you want to be. You can be an author, a writer, an indie or a bestselling novelist. Be a writer first and let the path you make lead to the goal you set.”
― Alex G Zarate

“How can anyone call this angel a monster? How can anyone see this angel as a mistake? So young and alive, her soul is less than a day old, her body was made from scratch, but her blood holds billions of years of history… history passed down through her ancestors, history that she herself will soon tell future generations...
And yet, new history begins with her.”
― Mary Gehad

“Today I was fisted by the sun
It's funny how Morning comes
and you're just supposed to give a shit.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, I Liked You When I Thought I was Dead

“The concert was magnificent. It was the second time she saw Floor and she loved them. Psychedelic rock. Indie. Hardcore. They always started with this great classic love song they sang a capella backstage while passing around some whisky. They each took a swig as they sang. The beautiful melodies that came out of this were amazing and the audience sang along. It was always a breathtaking moment.”
― Ruth Ann Oskolkoff, Zin

“Fine Tuning


My fingers
My hands
My wrists hurt so bad
from working all these years-
Working on being something,
always feeling like nothing

Some days, it hurts
to even turn the dial on the radio

But I don’t have to turn anymore
cause
you’re the right frequency (self)

And when you come to ground me,
I know that’s where I’m meant to be
stationed. Set the pre-set to
Love.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Will to Flutter

“There’s a spring in my step when I see a little indie bookstore down the way, with a tea mug carved out of wood hanging in the window. Another wooden sign declares its cute and utterly perfect name: Books and Boba.
Oh, this is heaven. Round bean bags are scattered among the long shelves, crammed with everything from picture books to young adult novels to coffee table books. The tea is forgotten as I pick up a graphic novel I’ve been looking forward to and start flipping through the pages. And then there’s another new release that I want—I add it to my pile. Then another, then—
I’ve got a stack of ten books by the time I make it to one of the bean bags, this one in a funky electric-blue daisy pattern.”
― Julie Abe, The Charmed List