“Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.”

“There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.”

“If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.”

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

“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don’t wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.”

“[April Michelle Davis's motto on freelancing in the publishing industry:] Like it, love it, live it. Like your genres, love what you do, live your profession.”