{"id":5968,"date":"2014-06-17T13:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2014-06-17T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:42:25","slug":"quotables-the-stories-only-you-can-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/17\/quotables-the-stories-only-you-can-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotables: The Stories Only You Can Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/cody-delistraty\/2013\/09\/21-harsh-but-eye-opening-writing-tips-from-great-authors\/\">one of those lists<\/a> of quotes by famous writers that go around every so often, which usually comprise a smidgeon of generic inspiration with some pat condescension and a whole lot of discouragement (at least that&#8217;s how I tend to experience them), here&#8217;s one I thought was actually pretty helpful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there\u2019ll always be better writers than you and there\u2019ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that \u2014 but you are the only you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2015 Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Gaiman is, of course, the best-selling fantasy novelist who created <em>The Sandman<\/em>, one of the most sublime comic-books-for-grownups ever written&#8230; just in case you didn&#8217;t know&#8230; )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From one of those lists of quotes by famous writers that go around every so often, which usually comprise a smidgeon of generic inspiration with some pat condescension and a whole lot of discouragement (at least that&#8217;s how I tend to experience them), here&#8217;s one I thought was actually pretty helpful: Start telling the stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}