{"id":43827,"date":"2026-05-28T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43827"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:02:21","slug":"a-writing-life-quote-from-ian-rankine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/a-writing-life-quote-from-ian-rankine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Life Quote from Ian Rankine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey [people] get disappointed when they meet the author because the author\u2019s not nearly as interesting as the character!\u201d<\/h3>\n

~ Ian Rankine<\/p>\n

I laughed when I read this, because I believe it’s more-often-than-not true that the majority of a writing life is one of quiet obscurity. And I would struggle to live a life as exciting and interesting as that of most, if not all, my characters. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

If you would like to read the indepth interview with ian Rankine, it appeared in the UK’s Courier newspaper:<\/p>\n

Ian Rankine: Why People Who Read Live A Thousand Lives<\/a><\/h3>\n

A title that’s pretty quotable in and of itself. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey [people] get disappointed when they meet the author because the author\u2019s not nearly as interesting as the character!\u201d ~ Ian Rankine I laughed when I read this, because I believe it’s more-often-than-not true that the majority of a writing life is one of quiet obscurity. And I would struggle to live a life as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43827","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=43827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43830,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43827\/revisions\/43830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}