Blogging Quotes - Page 5

• Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.

  Ann Althouse

  Games, Bloggers

  "Confusion in Israel" by Torie Bosch, www.slate.com. June 27, 2006.

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• I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Years, Lasts, Illness

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Hate, Dying, Too Much

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Writing, Journey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

  Biz Stone

  Book, Design, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

  Kate Christensen

  Book, Hard Work, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.

  Kate Christensen

  Book, Pay, Magazines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.

  Kate Christensen

  Real, Writing, Exercise

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet/blogging/other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.

  Marie Calloway

  Growing Up, School, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

  Kevin Drum

  Believe, Years, Spending

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• I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Thinking, Media, Talking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Political, Everyday

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Causes, Graffiti

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• The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.

  George Saunders

  Running, Writing, Years

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.

  Jessica Valenti

  Stress, Night

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

  Craig Newmark

  Writing, Editing, People

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• I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.

  Ann Voskamp

  Light, Years, Light Years

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

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• I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

  Ann Voskamp

  Figures, Handicaps, I Can

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.

  Ann Voskamp

  Platforms, Blogs

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.

  Mark Gonzales

  Writing, Zines, Paper

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got the bad press and the blogging and the email threats because people really didn't understand. They thought I was anti-gay. That's not true at all. My spiritual mom has a gay son. Even he was telling his friends "No, that's not true. She's so accepting of me." That doesn't mean I accept his lifestyle. It means I accept him as a human person and as a creation of God and a person of value.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Mom, Spiritual, Mean

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

  Ann Voskamp

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: churchleaders.com

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• Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.

  Sally Hogshead

  Business, Ideas, Marketing

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• Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

  Isabel Allende

  Ideas, Information, Phrases

  Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

  Jessica Valenti

  Stress, Talking, Laptops

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