{"id":3786,"date":"2013-01-03T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2013-01-03T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:05:11","slug":"more-writers-insights-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"More Writers\u2019 Insights on Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are 5 more of our favourite writers\u2019 quotes posted in the last couple of months, courtesy of the website Advice To Writers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It&#8217;s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.\u201d \u2013 Augusten Burroughs<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment \u2013 to put things down without deliberation \u2013 without worrying about their style \u2013 without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote \u2013 wrote, wrote\u2026By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.\u201d \u2013 Walt Whitman<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTo be a writer is to sit down at one\u2019s desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone\u2014just plain going at it.\u201d \u2013 John Hersey<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats&#8217;s idea of Negative Capability and Kipling&#8217;s advice to &#8220;drift, wait and obey.&#8221; Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.\u201d \u2013 Rose Tremain<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWriters spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. &#8230; It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause\u2014to look at them and make something of them.\u201d \u2013 Harry Crews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advicetowriters.com\/\">http:\/\/www.advicetowriters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are 5 more of our favourite writers\u2019 quotes posted in the last couple of months, courtesy of the website Advice To Writers. \u201cThe secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It&#8217;s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786"}],"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=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}