Amanda Hocking's Quotes

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

I don't really like fairies.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.'

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.