“Have you traveled the globe? Have you been places, done things and experienced the world? Have you lived a colorful, unique life? If not, you have nothing of value to contribute to humanity. Everything you write is not based on real world experience but recycled second hand information.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“You can't be a writer if you haven't done shit and experienced nothing interesting. They say write what you know. If you know nothing about life, you can't be a good writer. Good writing is based on who you are as a person. Every good book is a part of who you are. Every good writer reveals his true self in his books. If there is nothing interesting to reveal, go be an accountant or something. You have no business being a writer.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“The difference between some random toddler scribbling some crappy drawing and Leonardo da Vinci is that Leonardo has talent. Someone with no talent is not the same as someone with talent.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Supporting the wrong person makes you wrong too.”
“If someone with talent creates something, it's art. When someone with no talent creates something, it's crap.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“If you want to be a good writer, you need to be a talented artist. And artists are unique and stand out. Artists are the opposite of conformists.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“If you want to be a good writer, you need to be a talented artist. And artists are unique and stand out. Artists are the opposite of conformists. So by doing what everyone else is doing, you're proving your mediocrity, and your lack of artistic uniqueness. When you follow everyone else's example, you are by definition not an artist. You're a copy cat.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Not every self-published indie author is bad. There actually are some very good ones. But they're the exception, not the rule.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Shakespeare was one in a million. That makes you pretty unique, if there's only one million people.
But when there's a hundred million people, then being one in a million means there are 100 people just as talented as you.
In a country of 300 million people, there are 300 people like you. And in a world of seven billion people, you're competing with 7000 other people who are every bit as good as you. I wonder if Shakespeare would have gotten famous if he lived today, and had to compete with 7000 other Shakespeares.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Humanity has overcome the food chain, and having surpassed all other predators, has now turned to a strange form of cannibalism: humanity preys upon itself. We cull our own herd. We murder our own children. This is what we call “progress”.”