"The book trade is in monumental crisis. It's not because people have stopped reading but because they don't want to read the crap that wins posh literary prizes.' Janet Street Porter
"The biggest publishing catastrophe is the constant supply of crap written by people who have been famous for fifteen minutes on television." Lynda La Plante
"The problem is that publishers throw so much money at celebrity books that serious writers, those who depend on publishers to make a living, who have real talent, are being sidelined." Phillip Pullman
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