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 [blog] to discover what I know.
There is nothing to [blogging]. All you do is sit down at a [computer] and bleed.
Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to [blog] is not nearly as important as the [blogging] itself.
I feel like I’m too busy [blogging] history to read it.
A [blogger] is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Writing [blog posts] is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
If I don’t [blog] to empty my mind, I go mad.
[Blogging] is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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.
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.
[Blogging] means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.
We [blog] to remember our nows later.
Writing a [blog post] is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
The best time for planning a [blog post] is while you’re doing the dishes.
People do not deserve to have good [blogging], they are so pleased with bad.
The most essential gift for a good [blogger] is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector.
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.
[Blogging] is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
A good [blogger] possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
[Blogging] is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you [blog].
I can’t [blog] five words but that I change seven.
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.
I have never started a [blog post] yet whose end I knew. Writing a [post] is discovering.
I try to create sympathy for my [blog readers], then turn the monsters loose.
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].
[Blogging] is a struggle against silence.
If you want to be a [blogger], you must do two things above all others: read a lot [of posts] and [blog] a lot.
[Blogging] is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.
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].
If there’s a [blog post] that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold [blog draft] inside you.
There’s no such thing as [blogger’s] block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t [blog].
Not that the [blog post] need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
[Blogging] is its own reward.
[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.
There are three rules for [blogging] the [work]. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Either [blog] something worth reading or do something worth [blogging].
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to [blog]. Simple as that.
To produce a mighty [blog], you must choose a mighty [Wordpress] theme.
The purpose of a [blogger] is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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.
Writing [blog posts] is super intimate. It’s a bit like getting naked.
Being a good [blogger] is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the [Internet].
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.
When [a post] can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its [blogging].
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d [blog] a little faster.
When I was writing pretty poor [blog posts], this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
[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.
[Blog] the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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.
To survive, you must [blog] stories.
Get it [posted]. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
Let me live, love, and [blog] it well in good sentences.
You can make anything by [blogging].
The role of a [blogger] is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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.
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.
You must stay drunk on [blogging] so reality cannot destroy you.
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.
If you wait for inspiration to [blog] you’re not a [blogger], you’re a waiter.
[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.
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