{"id":19,"date":"2012-08-28T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2012-08-29T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T17:16:50","slug":"inspirational-maxims","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Maxims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every writer I know has trouble writing<em>.\u00a0 ~Joseph Heller, satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Author of Catch-22<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what&#8217;s burning inside you.\u00a0 And you edit to let the fire show through the smoke.<em>\u00a0 ~Arthur Polotnik, editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. <em>~Maya Angelou, American author and poet. Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Personal narrative writers must manufacture a text, imposing narrative order on a jumble of half-remembered events. With that feat of manipulation they arrive at a truth that is theirs alone,\u00a0not quite like that of anybody else who was present at the same events<em>.\u00a0 ~William Zinsser, American writer, editor, literary critic. Author of On Writing Well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn&#8217;t matter. I&#8217;m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn&#8217;t make us better, then what on earth is it for. \u00a0~<em>Alice Walker, American author, poet, and activist. Author of Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" title=\"Ernest Hemingway\" src=\"http:\/\/inktank.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ernest-Hemmingway-quote1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every writer I know has trouble writing.\u00a0 ~Joseph Heller, satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Author of Catch-22 &nbsp; You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what&#8217;s burning inside you.\u00a0 And you edit to let the fire show through the smoke.\u00a0 ~Arthur Polotnik, editor &nbsp; There is no greater agony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1106,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/intrdisc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}