13 brutal takedowns of Arron Banks after he mocked JK Rowling for having a writing room
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there’s this flash butcher I know with a SHOP
— Dom Joly (@domjoly) November 30, 2018
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When you are in prison, maybe the library there will have some of her books.
— John Rain☃️ (@MrKenShabby) November 29, 2018
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Some yutz is calling @jk_rowling "pretentious" for having a writing room? One, lots of writers have writing rooms; all you need is a spare room in the house. Two, when you've sold 500 million books, it's not actually pretension to have a room to write in. She's kinda earned it.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) December 1, 2018
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A writer has writing room , you know, like an artist has a studio, a musician often has a music room. I’m just annoyed you’ve got a living room.
— A$AP AYL$HAM (@ClarenceRook) December 1, 2018
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What is going on? I have a writing room, I even call it "the studio" and I write mostly tweets. https://t.co/Yq5AhsYPll
— Hank Green (@hankgreen) December 1, 2018
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I’ll let you criticise a writer when you learn how to use ellipsis and punctuation, champ.
— Mason Cross (@MasonCrossBooks) December 1, 2018
And then there was this, from JK Rowling herself.
.@Arron_banks Ага, зато этот человек скромный аж некуда — деньги вкладывает не в писательские кабинеты, а в дорогие ланчи с подозрительно богатыми россиянами. pic.twitter.com/XDkVYv8Q9v
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 30, 2018
Replying in Russian was a clear allusion to those reports which tied Banks’ Brexit campaign to Russia.
And just in case you’re wondering what it means, Rowling accused him of spending money ‘not on writing rooms, but on expensive lunches with suspiciously rich Russians.’ It was a reference that even Banks was able to spot.