"Writers are entertainers. We're not feeding villages. We're not curing cancer. No one owes us a living because we spend hours a writing stories. When it comes down to it, we're really not that important.

"And for all of you who spell art with a capital A and want to point to some work of staggering genius that changed your life, I recommend you go without eating for two weeks to put things in perspective."

http://jakonrath.blogspot.se/2013/12/konrath-and-eisler-vs-richard-russo-and.html

 

Joe Konrath frequently gets my back up in his blog posts, because he is very rah rah self-publishing, trad pub is teh evil a lot of the time. Except he's making a million dollars a year, and most people aren't.  On the other hand, sometimes he just nails it so perfectly, I forgive him and put his books back on my TBR.

Source: http://jakonrath.blogspot.se/2013/12/konrath-and-eisler-vs-richard-russo-and.html