Men looked so tragic when they cried. - Robert Galbraith

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted