Authors:
  • To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

    Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow