“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”
“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.”
“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from everyone I read -- something most important what I should not try to write.”
“People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they pay for it.”
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”
“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”