{"id":4962,"date":"2017-11-13T08:08:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2017-11-13T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:10:20","slug":"10-favourite-quotes-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4962","title":{"rendered":"10 FAV quotes on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n<w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n<w:UseFELayout\/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n<\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!-- [if !mso]><object classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/object>\n\n\n\n<style>\nst1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }<br \/>\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/<br \/>\ntable.MsoNormalTable<br \/>\n{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";<br \/>\nmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;<br \/>\nmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;<br \/>\nmso-style-noshow:yes;<br \/>\nmso-style-parent:\"\";<br \/>\nmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;<br \/>\nmso-para-margin:0cm;<br \/>\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;<br \/>\nmso-pagination:widow-orphan;<br \/>\nfont-size:10.0pt;<br \/>\nfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";<br \/>\nmso-ansi-language:#0400;<br \/>\nmso-fareast-language:#0400;<br \/>\nmso-bidi-language:#0400;}<br \/>\n<\/style>\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Easy reading is damn hard writing.\u00a0 \u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/li>\n<li>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.\u00a0\u2013 Edward Albee<\/li>\n<li>The sovereign rule:\u00a0 don\u2019t say it, write it. \u2014 James Michener<\/li>\n<li>I think all writing is a disease. You can\u2019t stop it. \u2014 William Carlos Williams<\/li>\n<li>I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. \u2013\u00a0Janet Flanner<\/li>\n<li>Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.\u00a0\u2013 Hermann Hesse<\/li>\n<li>The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.\u00a0 \u2014 Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a great power in words, if you don\u2019t hitch too many of them together. \u2013\u00a0Josh Billings<\/li>\n<li>Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.\u00a0\u2013 W. 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