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

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

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Enrique Jardiel Poncela

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

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

— Stephen King

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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Anaïs Nin

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

— Francis Bacon

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

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Agatha Christie

You can make anything by [blogging].

— C.S. Lewis

I [blog] to discover what I know.

— Flannery O’Connor

[Blogging] is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

— E.L. Doctorow

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Ernest Hemingway

[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

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

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Robert Frost

[Blogging] is a struggle against silence.

— Carlos Fuentes

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

— Herman Melville

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

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

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Anon

[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

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

— Karl Kraus

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

We [blog] to remember our nows later.

— Terri Guillemets

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

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

[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

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

— Gwen Stefani

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

— Dan Poynter

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

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

— Kanye West

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

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

To survive, you must [blog] stories.

— Umberto Eco

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

— Don Marquis

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

[Blogging] is its own reward.

— Henry Miller

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

— Dorothy Parker

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

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

— Stephen King

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

— William Faulkner

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

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

— Jeb Dickerson

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Norman Mailer

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