Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
Writers are always selling somebody out.
The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.
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