{"id":306,"date":"2010-05-10T07:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-05-10T07:07:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:07:50","slug":"some-wise-words-for-a-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Some Wise Words for a Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Irish-writers1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59\" title=\"Irish writers\" src=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Irish-writers1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn&#8217;t brood. I&#8217;d type a little faster.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaac Asimov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Writing is a dog&#8217;s life, but the only one worth living.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gustave Flaubert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Wilde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Writing is a deeply immersive experience.\u00a0 When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn\u2019t notice.\u00a0 I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity \u2013 writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monica Ali <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T.S. Eliot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Truman Capote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amy Lowell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams Wordsworth<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn&#8217;t brood. I&#8217;d type a little faster.\u2019 Isaac Asimov &#8216;Writing is a dog&#8217;s life, but the only one worth living.&#8217; Gustave Flaubert Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde \u2018Writing is a deeply immersive experience.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}