When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
Being poor is only romantic in books.
To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.