{"id":40842,"date":"2023-02-13T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40842"},"modified":"2023-02-12T21:07:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T08:07:46","slug":"thoughts-on-a-book-quote-by-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/02\/13\/thoughts-on-a-book-quote-by-margaret-atwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On A Book Quote by Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

” A word after a word after a word is power”<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

~ Margaret Atwood<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

~*~<\/p>\n

Kate Forsyth<\/a> identifi\"\"es this as one of her favourite writing quotes and it does resonate with me as well. Especially right now when “a word after a word after a word”<\/em> is exactly how I’m getting the work-in-progress and WALL series done — as discussed in the “mini update” two weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I would probably add that the words need to be to some purpose, but I don’t think there’s any doubt of that in the case of either Margaret Atwood or Kate Forsyth. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

This quote does remind me of the very famous quote from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve often thought how apt this is in relation to writing books, which begin and end with a single word — but Margaret Atwood is quite right that the journey between the two is the business of “a word after a word after a word.” <\/em><\/p>\n

And when they all hang together to good effect, i.e. they reach their final form of Coleridge’s “words in their best order”<\/em>, then yep, there is a power in that — if only in the author’s heart and mind. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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” A word after a word after a word is power” ~ Margaret Atwood ~*~ Kate Forsyth identifies this as one of her favourite writing quotes and it does resonate with me as well. Especially right now when “a word after a word after a word” is exactly how I’m getting the work-in-progress and WALL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,50,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-about-writing","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40842","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=40842"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40849,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40842\/revisions\/40849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}