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"Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages - all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronised, put-down and underpaid person." - Doris Lessing, Writer's Manifesto.
But, as one commenter put it, there's always more writers - and there's the rub.
stephen_dedman]"Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages - all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronised, put-down and underpaid person." - Doris Lessing, Writer's Manifesto.
But, as one commenter put it, there's always more writers - and there's the rub.