Blogging Quotes

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

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

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

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

The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time

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

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

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

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.

Make it about them, not about you.

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.

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

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

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

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

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

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

Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.

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

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

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

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

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

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

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

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

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."

Love your readers to death!

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

Social media is not a fad because it's human.

The social aspect of blogging is just as important as the content, so to borrow a phrase from the 1960s: the medium is the message. And my personal experience shows me that the potential of this medium is extra large.

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

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

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

I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.

I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.

Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.