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Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

Writers are not meant for action.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.