There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.
If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.
You have to go where the good writing is.
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.
The good news is that I've already outlived two Brontes, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The bad news is that I haven't written anything.
Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.