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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“Be cruel to me , cause I'm a fool for you.”
― Alex Turner

“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

“It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.”
― Justin Sirois, So Say the Waiters book 1

“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

“It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared was the rarest of indulgences, perhaps especially in those days. For them, it had been love at first sight, and so my mother's death shattered my father. That it only dimmed his light rather than snuffed it out altogether was a miracle in and of itself. ~The Peacemakers ~(The Nemesis Engines)”
― Olivier A. Blanchard

“We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)”
― Olivier A. Blanchard

“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, Bound to Accept

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“Scrivo perché mi piace concretizzare su carta mondi impossibili ma necessari. Scrivo perché voglio dare carne alle mie idee e perché voglio vederle crescere e svilupparsi in direzioni impensabili. Scrivo perché farlo mi dà un modo unico di comunicare con me stesso e mi insegna in un modo particolare chi sono e che cosa voglio.”
― Michele Amitrani, Confessione di un Autore Indipendente

“Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

“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