Somewhere down there on the footer of this blog are some random quotes related to blogging… well actually they are quotes about writing that I have subverted for my own felonious pleasure. The full set of quotes are spit out below.

For those seeking the “how ya do it” it was done with the Quotes Collection Plugin. This is no longer available in WordPress but is available for download from GitHub – if you see quotes below you know the old thing works. Maybe.

I am irritated by my own [blogging]. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

— Gustave Flaubert

Let me live, love, and [blog] it well in good sentences.

— Sylvia Plath

To produce a mighty [blog], you must choose a mighty [Wordpress] theme.

— Herman Melville

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from [your blog]; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

You must stay drunk on [blogging] so reality cannot destroy you.

— Ray Bradbury

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold [blog draft] inside you.

— Maya Angelou

The purpose of a [blogger] is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

— Albert Camus

Writing [blog posts] is super intimate. It’s a bit like getting naked.

— Gwen Stefani

If you want to be a [blogger], you must do two things above all others: read a lot [of posts] and [blog] a lot.

— Stephen King

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you [blog].

— Somerset Maugham

Find out the reason that commands you to [blog]; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to [blog].

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You can make anything by [blogging].

— C.S. Lewis

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to [blog] is not nearly as important as the [blogging] itself.

— Henry Miller

Anecdotes don’t make good [blog posts]. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the [post] that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

— Alice Munro

[Blog] the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

— Francis Bacon

Writing a [blog] is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

— E. L. Doctorow

A good [blogger] possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Blogging] is a struggle against silence.

— Carlos Fuentes

And by the way, everything in life is [bloggable] about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

— Sylvia Plath

The only thing I was fit for was to be a [blogger], and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that [blogging] didn’t require any.

— Russell Baker

[Blogging] became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

— Sharon O’Brien

[Blogging] means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

— Paulo Coelho

You should [blog] because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. [Blogging] comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to [blog].

— Annie Proulx

Anyway these are my humours, my opinions: I give them as [blog posts] which I believe, not as things to be believed. My aim is to [b;log] my own self, which may well be different tomorrow if I am initiated into some new business which changes me. I have not, nor do I desire, enough authority to be believed. I feel too badly taught to teach others.

— Michel de Montaigne

If you wait for inspiration to [blog] you’re not a [blogger], you’re a waiter.

— Dan Poynter

The best time for planning a [blog post] is while you’re doing the dishes.

— Agatha Christie

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d [blog] a little faster.

— Isaac Asimov

[Blogging] is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

— E.L. Doctorow

To survive, you must [blog] stories.

— Umberto Eco

You have to write the [blog post] that wants to be written. And if the [blog post] will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

— Madeleine L’Engle

[Blogging] is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow

There is no rule on how to [blog]. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly: sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to [blogging]. All you do is sit down at a [computer] and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway

Either [blog] something worth reading or do something worth [blogging].

— Benjamin Franklin

Not that the [blog post] need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

— Henry David Thoreau

If I don’t [blog] to empty my mind, I go mad.

— Lord Byron

A [blogger] is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

— Karl Kraus

There are three rules for [blogging] the [work]. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

— W. Somerset Maugham

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. [Blogging] isn’t like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With [blogging], the way you feel changes everything.

— Stephenie Meyer

I have never started a [blog post] yet whose end I knew. Writing a [post] is discovering.

— Robert Frost

[Blogging] is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I [blog] for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We [blog] to remember our nows later.

— Terri Guillemets

[Blogging] is its own reward.

— Henry Miller

Writing a [blog post] is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

[The Blogosphere] is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

— Edward Abbey

The most essential gift for a good [blogger] is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector.

— Ernest Hemingway

All the words I use in my [blog posts] can be found in the dictionary—it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

— Somerset Maugham

[Blogging] is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.

— Jeb Dickerson

[Blogging] is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

— Virginia Woolf

I try to create sympathy for my [blog readers], then turn the monsters loose.

— Stephen King

I can’t [blog] five words but that I change seven.

— Dorothy Parker

Get it [posted]. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

When I was writing pretty poor [blog posts], this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

— Carl Sandburg

There’s no such thing as [blogger’s] block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t [blog].

— Terry Pratchett

I feel like I’m too busy [blogging] history to read it.

— Kanye West

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to [blog]. Simple as that.

— Stephen King

The role of a [blogger] is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anaïs Nin

I [blog] to discover what I know.

— Flannery O’Connor

When [a post] can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its [blogging].

— Enrique Jardiel Poncela

If there’s a [blog post] that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison

People do not deserve to have good [blogging], they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being a good [blogger] is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the [Internet].

— Anon

Writing [blog posts] is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

— Norman Mailer

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