Advent Quote by Jennifer Armintrout

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get…

— Caroline Leavitt

“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it,…

— Charles Finch

Leaving a book is hard - 'Secret Six' was a book that people cared about. Even years later, the digital sales are great; the…

— Gail Simone

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

— Jonathan Dee

Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

— Patti Davis

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on,…

— Richard Curtis

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon