Blogging Quotes

The right people to start video blogging are those with a passion to tell a story.

The heart of blogging is linking - linking and commenting. Connecting and communicating - the purpose of the Internet.

Create something people want to share.

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.

Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.

The key with blogging is to lay it all out there because sooner or later people are going to know what you know, so might as well be the first one to share the information and get credit for it.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'

Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Blogging is a great way to provide tips and advice to each other.

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.

So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That’s because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days.

Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).

Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers.

Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.

The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.

I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.

Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful."

Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.

What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.

I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.

Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.

Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.