“ Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar. Anne Lamott
“ Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. Red Red Rover
“ An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. George Bernard Shaw
“ Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame wil… Roman Payne
“ Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content. Sara Sheridan
“ 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… Kailin Gow
“ Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade. Yuri Boganov
“ You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story.Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake of love. I'llbet you a hundred to one a woman wrote that junky romantic trash!J… V.C. Andrews
“ Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single mo… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ 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 d… Alexei Maxim Russell
“ The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry. Alexei Maxim Russell
“ Author branding is the process of positioning an author as the center of attraction and influence, to be the preferred choice in a given theme, style, category, niche or genre Bernard Kelvin Clive
“ I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing h… Anne Lamott
“ Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications Linda F. Radke
“ It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging. NetworkEtiquette.net David Chiles