As a writer I deny, absolutely any suggestion that I am, in any sense bonkers. Now can someone pass me that ladder so I can descend, in safety from the top of Nelson’s Column!
When reading scathing reviews of an author’s work I sometimes ask myself whether the reviewer has ever expended blood, sweat and tears when writing a book. Reviewers must, of course be honest but as a poet once wrote “tread softly on my dreams”. Kevin
Vain, selfish and lazy? Speak for yourself Eric Blair aka George Orwell. Most writers I know are none of those things. These days the only people you will come across like that are certain editors and literary agents as well as some professional critics. The latter category, especially the odd one or two who write for newspapers and literary magazines here in the UK, can definitely be said to be vain and selfish. To those two unsavoury qualities I would add a few others – condescending, snobbish, scathing and vicious, particularly when it comes to one leading newspaper’s literary critic and his deep loathing of Indies. Compared to him, internet trolls are rank amateurs.
As for the rest of what Eric is quoted as saying – writing is a long exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness, he’s perfectly correct. It is. With a few…
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