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"YES. My writer friends save my life & keep me going. ♥️ “The industry pits writers against each other... The industry is award ceremonies; it’s reviews & parties & magazines choosing who to profile. But writers are not the industry.” — Isle McElroy @Esquire

www.esquire.com/entertainmen..."

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  "Screenshot of part of Isle McElroy’s Esquire piece on the Rise of Literary Friendships with this part highlighted in blue: They bonded with each other as peers, and when their books were published, rooting for one another became second nature. In building these friendships, she was able to see more clearly the distinction between writers and the writing industry. The industry pits writers against each other. The industry is publishing houses deciding which books to promote. The industry is award ceremonies; it’s reviews and parties and magazines choosing who to profile. But writers are not the industry. “The industry was going to do what it was going to do to our books,” Thompson-Spires told me. “It was sort of out of our hands, and the more I could bond with those other people, the more I saw us as individuals and our work as individuals. That made it difficult to feel any kind of competitiveness with them.”"

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