{"id":1334,"date":"2008-05-12T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2008-05-12T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T08:05:00","slug":"compatible_quotes_42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/05\/compatible_quotes_42\/","title":{"rendered":"On Writing: Compatible Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I had the speed and fluidity of, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/\">Terry Teachout<\/a>, I might have finished a spate of non-<em>Rifftides <\/em>writing assignments sooner&#8211;and a book or two on the side. As it is, there&#8217;s a good chance that I&#8217;ll return to blogging this very week. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>Learn to write well, or not to write at all.&#8211;John Dryden, <em>Essay on Satire <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman&#8217;s name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer &#8211; and if so, why?&#8211;Bennett Cerf <\/p>\n<p>A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.&#8211;Thomas Mann<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had the speed and fluidity of, say, Terry Teachout, I might have finished a spate of non-Rifftides writing assignments sooner&#8211;and a book or two on the side. As it is, there&#8217;s a good chance that I&#8217;ll return to blogging this very week. &nbsp; Learn to write well, or not to write at all.&#8211;John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}