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Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.
– Sara Sheridan

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  1. …the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side. – JG Ballard
  2. Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. – Cecil B DeMille
  3. I’d never be where I am if more successful writers hadn’t taken an interest in me and done me a good turn. – Sara Sheridan
  4. Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Anne Herbert
  5. Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech. – Stepan Chapman
  6. Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive. – Jen Campbell
  7. I’m proud of the culture I come from – we’re a small country and a close-knit community. – Sara Sheridan
  8. The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don’t have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn’t resemble art in any way. – Jim Benton
  9. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. – Oscar Wilde
  10. You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – R Buckminster Fuller
  11. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Richard Buckminster Bucky Fuller
  12. If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If it is done well, it is enjoyed well. – Israelmore Ayivor
  13. There is a tale…It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow. – Cameron Dokey
  14. [E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. – Edward O Wilson
  15. Writers of novels live in a strange world where what’s made up is as important as what’s real. – Sara Sheridan
  16. Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you’ve heard is true. – Sara Sheridan
  17. There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers – as many different responses as there are readers. – Sara Sheridan
  18. Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. – Sara Sheridan
  19. Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers’ job specification. – Sara Sheridan
  20. Crime writers, I’ve noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven’t been caught yet! – Sara Sheridan
  21. Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric. – Sara Sheridan
  22. Writers need each other. – Sara Sheridan
  23. Scotland consistently produces world-class writers. – Sara Sheridan
  24. I’m a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online. – Sara Sheridan
  25. Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. – Alberto Manguel
  26. When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. -˜Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge. – Ashley Earley
  27. Scottish Play Doe was born at 4:13 a.m. on September 6th. The ink was barely dry on his father’s new tattoo. – Adam Rex
  28. The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. – Stuart Haddon
  29. Darnley, who, like Banquo’s ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive. – Antonia Fraser
  30. Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. – Timothy J Keller
  31. I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community. – Lamar Tyler
  32. There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce – Michele Jennae
  33. The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community. – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
  34. In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top. – Agatha Christie
  35. A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top. – Simon Sinek
  36. We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other. – Bryant McGill
  37. When you see someone on top, look away and don’t try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  38. Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top. – Moffat Machingura
  39. Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me. – Raegan Butcher
  40. Eternal snows are at the top. Eyes of beautiful are at the top. (Neiges ̩ternelles sont au sommet. РYeux de la belle sont au sommet.) РCharles de Leusse

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