Sher slams literary elite

Sir Anthony Sher is giving up novel writing because he simply cannot get noticed, reports The Independent.

"The literary world is a sort of club that lets some people in and some not," he complained, "and for some reason I wasn't let in. The way that they let you know you're not going to be let in is they don't review your book. Or they review it so slowly it dies at birth and the publishers don't want to publish your books any more."

If a famous playwright like Sher can't get reviews, what hope is there for the rest of us?!