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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.

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.

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

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.

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

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

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.