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Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.

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.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

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

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

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.