{"id":27572,"date":"2012-04-25T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/quotations-on-writing.html"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:51:24","slug":"quotations-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/quotations-on-writing.html","title":{"rendered":"Quotations on Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of these will likely show up on http:\/\/wist.info<\/a> in coming months (others are already there).<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Amanda Patterson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

12 Remarkable Quotes About Writing<\/p>\n

1. \u201cSubstitute \u2018damn\u2019 every time you\u2019re inclined to write \u2018very\u2019; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.\u201d ~ Mark Twain<\/p>\n

2. \u201cIf writing seems hard, it\u2019s because it is hard. It\u2019s one of the hardest things people do.\u201d ~ William Zinsser<\/p>\n

3. \u201cWriting well means never having to say, \u2018I guess you had to be there.\u2019 \u201d ~ Jef Mallett<\/p>\n

4. \u201cWriting gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it\u2019s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.\u201d ~ David Sedaris<\/p>\n

5. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.\u201d ~ Red Smith<\/p>\n

6. \u201cWriting is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.\u201d ~ E.L. Doctorow<\/p>\n

7. \u201cI\u2019m not a very good writer, but I\u2019m an excellent rewriter.\u201d ~ James Michener<\/p>\n

8. \u201cEasy reading is damn hard writing.\u201d ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/p>\n

9. \u201cIf my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn\u2019t brood. I\u2019d type a little faster.\u201d ~ Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n

10. \u201cThe road to hell is paved with adverbs.\u201d ~ Stephen King<\/p>\n

11. \u201cInk and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.\u201d ~ Terri Guillemets<\/p>\n

12. \u201cWrite drunk, edit sober.\u201d ~ Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n

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Some of these will likely show up on http:\/\/wist.info in coming months (others are already there). Reshared post from +Amanda Patterson 12 Remarkable Quotes About Writing 1. \u201cSubstitute \u2018damn\u2019 every time you\u2019re inclined to write \u2018very\u2019; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.\u201d ~ Mark Twain 2. … Continue reading “Quotations on Writing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":618,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/11\/thoughts_at_lun.html","url_meta":{"origin":27572,"position":0},"title":"Thoughts at lunch","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Sep-01 12:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Boy, not just a little anger in that last post, was there? 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