“One more time: if you want to be a novelist, you need to know how to sell books, regardless of the mode with which you publish your work.”— Shaunta Grimes, medium.com
“There's so much money to be made as a self-help writer I think, because we all want to believe that there is just one piece that we are missing, some learning we can apply to our lives and it will make everything make sense.”— Chrissy Stockton, facebook.com
“sifting through the madness for The Word, the line, the way, hoping for a check from somewhere, dreaming of a letter from a great editor, 'Chinaski, you don't know how long we've been waiting for you!' no chance at all.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“your art is not about how many people like your work your art is about if your heart likes your work if your soul likes your work it's about how honest you are with yourself and you must never trade honesty for relatability.”— Rupi Kaur, facebook.com
“The passion for self improvement is the love for reading, learning and writing.”— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.com
“As Shakespeare once said, 'I'm stuck on this play. Let's have a beer or something?'”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Write when you want or when you can or when you need to. If you write, on any schedule, you’re a writer. That’s it.”— Roxane Gay, roxanegay.tumblr.com
“I tell myself no one is going to read my work and that’s how I find the ovaries to get my work put there.”— Roxane Gay, roxanegay.tumblr.com
“When I was first starting out as a writer it was only the love of writing that kept me going. Writing is lonely but writing also kept me company. The characters I created kept me company. Wanting to tell new stories or offer my perspective on this world we live in motivated me. Wanting to be seen an…”— Roxane Gay, roxanegay.tumblr.com
“Look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual.”— ariel levy, amazon.com
“Just me and my depression, out looking for some lipstick to make us feel better while Call Your Girlfriend plays on.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“A poet does not write to set down things he clearly knows, but to open the lips of his own oracle.”— John Vyvyan, amazon.com
“I will not allow someone to tell me I can’t be a writer because I don’t have enough followers on Instagram.”— Shani Silver, artplusmarketing.com
“I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all the darkness.”— Ryan Adams, amazon.com
“Once in a life, if a person chooses to go through these things, then maybe the act of writing them down could be a gift, so that others might know that should they suffer their romances or their love of things, they're not alone.”— Ryan Adams, amazon.com