{"id":2432,"date":"2018-02-23T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2018-02-26T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T01:14:37","slug":"writers-on-writing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"Writers on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2434\" title=\"Writing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Writing1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn\u2019t. Nobody can write the absolute truth. \u2013 Henry Miller<\/li>\n<li>A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. \u2013 Isaac Bashevis Singer<\/li>\n<li>A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. \u2013 John K. Hutchens<\/li>\n<li>How can I know what I think till I see what I say? \u2013 E.M. Forster<\/li>\n<li>A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. \u2013 Karl Kraus<\/li>\n<li>If you would be a reader, read,; if a writer, write. \u2013 Epictetus<\/li>\n<li>The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer\u2019s radar and all great writers have had it. \u2013 Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n<li>The waste basket is a writer\u2019s best friend. \u2013 Isaac Bashevis Singer<\/li>\n<li>Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. \u2013 Logan Pearsall Smith<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve put my genius into my life; I\u2019ve only put my talent into my works. \u2013 Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader\u2019s attention or check his habitual pace of reading \u2013 he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic. \u2013 Robert Graves and Allan Hodge<\/li>\n<li>One way to looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. \u2013 Harold Pinter<\/li>\n<li>Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. \u2013 Erza Pound<\/li>\n<li>My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. \u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n<li>I quote others in order to better express my own self. \u2013 Montaigne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chris George provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn\u2019t. Nobody can write the absolute truth. \u2013 Henry Miller A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. \u2013 Isaac Bashevis&#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":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432"}],"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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}