{"id":124,"date":"2015-02-07T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=124"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:12:09","slug":"on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. &#8212; Joseph Pulitzer<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Easy reading is damn hard writing. &#8212; Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">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. &#8212; Edward Albee<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. &#8212; Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. &#8212; Ishmael Reed<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. &#8212; Hermann Hesse<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Words make love with one another. &#8212; Andre Breton<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The sovereign rule: don&#8217;t say it, write it. &#8212; James Michener<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Only a mediocre writer is always at his best. &#8212; W. Somerset Maugham<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. &#8212; James Thurber<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. &#8212; Janet Flanner<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">I think all writing is a disease. You can&#8217;t stop it. &#8212; William Carlos Williams<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">There&#8217;s a great power in words, if you don&#8217;t hitch too many of them together. &#8212; Josh Billings<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. &#8212; Sydney Smith<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. &#8212; Thomas Mann<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The waste basket is the writer&#8217;s best friend. &#8212; Isaac Bashevis Singer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. &#8212; Joseph Pulitzer Easy reading is damn hard writing. &#8212; Nathaniel Hawthorne Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6080,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}