{"id":41350,"date":"2023-08-07T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41350"},"modified":"2023-08-06T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T09:59:15","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/08\/07\/a-writing-quote-from-margaret-atwood\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote From Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice.”<\/span> <\/span><\/h3>\n

~ Margaret Atwood, b. 1939
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“…a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.”<\/em> — Wikipedia<\/p>\n

~*~<\/p>\n

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So I guess there’s hope for me yet, when it comes to writing! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

And I do agree that the more one writes, putting effort and thought into it, and consciously striving to improve, then by and large, improvement does follow.<\/p>\n

As a reader, though, I’ve never really thought of it as something I do to improve — but I imagine that if any reader pursues books that stretch comprehension of language and ideas, then one’s capacity to read deeply will grow.<\/p>\n

Food for thought, just to kick off the week.<\/p>\n

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“Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice.” ~ Margaret Atwood, b. 1939 “…a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.” — Wikipedia ~*~ So I guess there’s hope for me yet, when it comes to writing! \ud83d\ude00 And I do agree that the more one writes, putting effort and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350","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=41350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41356,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350\/revisions\/41356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}