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The Writing Life

“The image I had was, if you represented writers who were good, they and you were doomed to a life of poverty and madness and alcoholism and suicide. Dying spider plants and grimy windows on the Lower East Side.”

—Agent Andrew Wylie on representing literary authors, quoted in TNR, Oct 13, 2013

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Published on March 04, 2014 12:08 Tags: alcoholism, bankruptcy, madness, suicide