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"At a time when an expanding creative writing school industry is producing more and more graduates with expectations of being published, today's fiction writer is going to need very steady nerves and plenty of luck."

-- Peter Ayrton, publisher of Serpent's Tail books, 'We need to talk about fiction,' The Author, Summer 2008

So it feels to me very much like a dying moment, for literary culture in my own country – but you can't have computers and iPods and BlackBerries and blueberries and raspberries, and have time left to sit for two or three hours with a book.

-- Philip Roth, interview in The Independent, 3 Oct 07

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