Top 100 Quotes About Blogging
#1. And then Julia's thinking about the internet and blogging; how everyone with a keyboard thinks they can just bang out articles no problem, never mind research or quality control.
Claire Hennessy
#2. 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.
Cory Doctorow
#3. There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.
Jessica Valenti
#4. Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.
Maureen Corrigan
#5. Sometimes writing about a TV show, or a movie, or a book, is the most honest way to write about yourself.
Aaron Burch
#6. In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I think the amount of longer conversations that radiated more warmth may have gone down.
Indra Nooyi
#7. Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.
Evan Williams
#8. 'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.
Evan Williams
#9. The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#10. Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule.
Raheel Farooq
#11. It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
Imogen Heap
#12. In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.
Augusten Burroughs
#13. Blogging isn't about publishing as much as you can. It's about publishing as smart as you can.
Jon Morrow
#14. Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.
Lauren Conrad
#15. A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.
Lemn Sissay
#16. Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
Larry L. King
#17. Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
Seth Godin
#18. The model for tomorrow, and this is the model I've been using with enormous enthusiasm since I started blogging back in 2001, is to try everything. Make mistakes. Surprise ourselves. Try anything else. Fail. Fail better. And succeed in ways we never would have imagined a year or a week ago.
Neil Gaiman
#19. 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.
Kate Christensen
#20. Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.
Kate Christensen
#21. Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.
Jason Calacanis
#22. Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.
Seth Godin
#23. Q: Why do you blog?
A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs to hear my opinions, and I like to oblige.
Ophelia Benson
#24. The right people to start video blogging are those with a passion to tell a story.
Steve Garfield
#25. 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
Darren Rowse
#26. I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.
Neil Gaiman
#27. I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.
Ali MacGraw
#28. If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.
Neil Patel
#29. 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.
Seth Godin
#30. I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.
Staceyann Chin
#31. 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.
Laini Taylor
#32. The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
Jeff Jarvis
#33. Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).
Guy Kawasaki
#34. With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how information is delivered has changed tremendously. The landscape for news is a different place, and people have to accept that.
Michael Eric Dyson
#35. Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want and the unmediated connection with readers are the payoff.
Kate Christensen
#36. At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#37. When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
Matt Mullenweg
#38. I think blogging, by and large, is basically therapy. And I'm sure, and I know, that there are some terrific bloggers and some legitimate bloggers. But I think, by and large, a huge percentage of people who are blogging are doing it for self-therapy.
Mike Barnicle
#39. Blogging is a great way to provide tips and advice to each other.
Indra Nooyi
#40. 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.
Indra Nooyi
#41. I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.
Mark Gonzales
#42. But those start-up founders don't hide their failures; to the contrary, they flaunt them - blogging about them, gathering to talk about them at conferences like FailCon.
Jessica Bennett
#43. At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#44. 'Feed' is about zombies and politics and blogging. It's about how George Romero actually saved the world! It's 'Night Of The Living Dead' meets 'The West Wing.'
Seanan McGuire
#45. I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.
Justine Larbalestier
#46. The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.
Craig Newmark
#47. I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.
Keri Smith
#48. One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.
Jessica Valenti
#49. There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
Indra Nooyi
#50. Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.
Harold Evans
#51. Because this absolutely insane - the craziest thing I'd ever done. Worse than giving a one-star review, scarier than asking for an interview with an author I'd give my firstborn to eat lunch with, more stupid than kissing Daemon.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#52. But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.
Robert Scoble
#53. 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.
Neil Patel
#54. If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
Jason Calacanis
#55. When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!
Jessica Valenti
#56. I do not know of a Chinese blogger who has gone to jail, but I know several who have had their blogs shut down. I also know some Chinese bloggers who have received threatening phone calls from police warning them to 'be careful.' In some cases, they stopped blogging for a while.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#57. 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."
Lee Gutkind
#58. 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.'
Neil Gaiman
#60. He returned my smile with a half grin. So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#61. His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge's contribution would be video-blogging from the front lines of the apocalypse?
Justin Cronin
#62. Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.
Jason Calacanis
#63. 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.
Clay Shirky
#64. My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top.
Evan Williams
#65. Developing your blog is a balancing act between appeasing current readers and reaching out to new ones.
Scribendi
#66. There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.
Rick Moranis
#68. 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.
Robert Scoble
#70. I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
Warren Ellis
#71. And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.
Lawrence Lessig
#72. 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.
Justine Larbalestier
#73. My blog is a collection of answers people don't want to hear to questions they didn't ask.
Sebastyne Young
#74. After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
Zoe Sugg
#75. There is some blogging jerk out there who feels he can generalize his way to validity.
Neil Young
#76. What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar
#77. There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
Matt Mullenweg
#78. I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.
Jessica Valenti
#79. When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
Jason Calacanis
#80. Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.
Evan Williams
#81. I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.
Danny Boyle
#82. 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.
Fred Wilson
#83. I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.
Carrie Brownstein
#84. I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.
Biz Stone
#85. The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.
Augusten Burroughs
#86. 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.
Mark Powell
#87. He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.
Donald Miller
#89. 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.
Jenny Lawson
#90. Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.
Evan Williams
#92. And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.
Steve Ballmer
#93. My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
Seth Godin
#94. I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.
Perez Hilton
#95. You can use WordPress as your blogging platform which is really easy to use and it has many good free theme designs for those starting out. You can also use Blogger or Tumbler, but WordPress is brilliant because of the many plugins which are available.
H. Jayne
#96. It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they write it down for 10 minutes they become much more available for whatever it is we want to do in the class.
Joan Countryman
#97. I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.
Eric Schmidt
#98. What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#99. According to neuroscience research from 2012, it is intrinsically rewarding to talk about oneself. This is perhaps why Facebook, Twitter and blogging platforms like Tumblr have been such successful products.
Dan Ariely
#100. At the end of the day this is nothing more than a blog. It's nice to hit them high notes - but REALLY - how significant do you think something that sort of sounds like the sound of a flatulent frog being run over by a clown car really needs to be?
Steve Vernon
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