{"id":1688,"date":"2012-02-15T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2012-02-15T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:42:53","slug":"quote-for-the-day-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2012\/02\/15\/quote-for-the-day-158\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a grinder. Novels are very long, and long novels are very, very long. It&#8217;s just a hell of a lot of man-hours. I tend to just go in there, and if it comes, it comes. A morning when I write not a single word doesn&#8217;t worry me too much. If I come up against a brick wall, I&#8217;ll just go and play snooker or something or sleep on it, and my subconscious will fix it for me. Usually, it&#8217;s a journey without maps but a journey with a destination, so I know how it&#8217;s going to begin and I know how it&#8217;s going to end, but I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m going to get from one to the other. That, really, is the struggle of the novel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Martin Amis, a British novelist, essayist and short story writer<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a grinder. Novels are very long, and long novels are very, very long. It&#8217;s just a hell of a lot of man-hours. I tend to just go in there, and if it comes, it comes. A &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2012\/02\/15\/quote-for-the-day-158\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}