“The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?”

“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”

“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.”

“Even if you never get published, no one can take away your joy in writing, which is why you should be doing it anyway.”

“I don’t know why the publishers in New York don’t take a tip from Hollywood and just publish the outlines of novels rather than the completed books. Let the audience use their imaginations, as my Maw always says about radio. I would much prefer to read an outline of War and Peace than slog through eight hundred thousand words. Why do I need Tolstoy to describe snow? I can imagine snow, whether Russian snow or just regular snow. But book publishers seem to think that the authors should do all the work, and the readers should be waited on hand-and-foot like a buncha goddamn prima donnas.”

“Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables: "?" The publisher's response: "!" ”