{"id":432,"date":"2015-03-01T06:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T06:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2015\/03\/01\/all-writers-are-vain-selfish-and-lazy-and-at\/"},"modified":"2015-03-01T06:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T06:10:47","slug":"all-writers-are-vain-selfish-and-lazy-and-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2015\/03\/01\/all-writers-are-vain-selfish-and-lazy-and-at\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one\u2019s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observando.net\/tagged\/George+Orwell\">George Orwell<\/a><br \/> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/observando.net\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">observando<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Okay then.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/booksandpublishing.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">booksandpublishing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[332,160],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-about-writing","tag-quotes","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}