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'Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy...

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither...

Writers are always anxious, always on the run—from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. Edna O’Brien

Writers will moan, ‘You don’t know how lonely it is, how hard it is...’ You love it, you liar, you fucking love it, you’re on your eighteenth book. Sure, there will be some tough days, some shitty days during the process, but you know it’s a thing that once you get going, it won’t feel like...

Some writers won’t read a word of any novel while they’re writing their own. Not one word. They don’t even want to see the cover of a novel. As they write, the world of fiction dies: no one has ever written, no one is writing, no one will ever write again. Try to recommend a good novel to a...

'Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.' Robert Mykle

'I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.' Anita Diamant

Writers are made – forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities – over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same as the writer you become. Chuck Wendig

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.” Edward Albee

Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely. Richard Condon

:) The Year of Writing Dangerously

Scroll to view the gallery - AUGUST - - SEPTEMBER - - OCTOBER - - NOVEMBER - More amazing galleries of excerpts We stay connected on BBM. That will be cool! www.bbmenterprise.com/3357bfb8 BBM: 3357BFB8 www.linkedin.com/in/lawalomo99 Smart Quotations Smart Bank Poetry

Scroll to view the gallery - APRIL - - MAY - - JUNE - DAVID NEWRICK won June Flash Club contest, and SmartBankPoetry awaits to see through his writing to extract an excellently exploring excerpt. SmartBankPoetry captures his remarkably ruling runner-up, Katie-Ellen Hazeldine. Here...

Scroll to view the gallery - APRIL - - MAY - - JUNE - DAVID NEWRICK won June Flash Club contest and SmartBankPoetry awaits to see his writing to extract an excellently exploring excerpt. SmartBankPoetry captures his remarkably ruling runner-up, Katie-Ellen Hazeldine. Here: -...

Scroll to view the gallery - FEBRUARY - - MARCH - - APRIL - More amazing galleries of excerpts We stay connected on BBM. That will be cool! www.bbmenterprise.com/3357bfb8 BBM: 3357BFB8 www.linkedin.com/in/lawalomo99 Smart Quotations Smart Bank Poetry

For a second year, SmartBankPoetry goes beyond the fictions to bring you 2017 #SmartBankPoetry Collections: Winning Excerpts from the Litopian Flash Club to #LoveWriting, a celebration of this planet of writers and the joy of writers being acknowledged. Here's what we collected. Scroll to view...

PODCAST With Will Self and other London writers. Ben Aaronovitch could get a mention. Reviewers who say they don't read fantasy have also said they have read Rivers of London for his wonderful portraiture of streets they know: London Books are big business, and London's open for Business...