Quotes About Independence

That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.

It's a fascinating world to drop a finished product on the marketplace without the intercession of a publisher.

Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.

When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done - well, then it just feels like, what is the benefit of having a publisher?

I will not buck to pressure of delivering to publishers.

The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.

I should have my own publishing companies.

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to all the pubs and clubs around the local area and just sort of do our own little cover shows.