{"id":26052,"date":"2014-06-19T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=26052"},"modified":"2014-06-18T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:22:30","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-harper-lee-with-a-riff-to-junot-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/a-writing-quote-from-harper-lee-with-a-riff-to-junot-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote from Harper Lee, With A Riff To Junot Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;It takes time and patience and effort to turn out a work of art, and few people seem willing to go all the way.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Harper Lee<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>In a way, this reminds me of the Junot Diaz quote I featured last year:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I suspect they are both getting at the same thing, which is that listening to the art may take time &#8212; and to be true to the work, you have to be willing to go with that even if it doesn&#8217;t make life particularly easy.<\/p>\n<p>Oft times though, I find I have no choice, because the story refuses to budge until I&#8217;ve gotten it right, no matter how I &#8220;rant and storm.&#8221;\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It takes time and patience and effort to turn out a work of art, and few people seem willing to go all the way.&#8221; ~ Harper Lee &#8212; In a way, this reminds me of the Junot Diaz quote I featured last year: \u201cThe whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26057,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions\/26057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}