If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.
~Don Marquis
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Word Ferret: Writing Prompts, Book Reviews, and Short Stories 
Great quote.
That’s a keeper.
Anybody out there who has been struggling with the stupidity and vapidity of editors and agents knows the Don is exactly write.
But thanks to new technologies, we don’t need the trappings of traditional publishing any more, the artistic interference and tampering.
Just posted my new novel on my site and have had thousands of hits in the past month, readers all over the world perusing and downloading SO DARK THE NIGHT.
So I say to the gate-keepers of trad publishing: KISS MY ASS.