...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

Robert Galbraith
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J.R.R. Tolkien said, “Writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.

If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.” He was right: writing is a brotherhood and a sisterhood. It is a community of friends and the people we work with day in and day out, for years on end. You don’t have to like everyone but everyone likes you.

Source: The Silkworm

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