“The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.” WayStoriesHappensThreeCausesGoalCan DoFictionShareBuildingResearchStructureSpreadDescribingNon FictionBloggingThree Ways Author:Seth Godin
“We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.” PeopleNeedsCommunityEpidemicsBloggingMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“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.” WayWritingFormSportsAliveExtremesAccidentsLoudFormalAthleticsBloggingExtreme Sports Author:Andrew Sullivan
“Social media is not a fad because it's human.” HumansSocialMediaSocial MediaBloggingFads Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“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.” IfsWritingArtPlansPerformingBloggingShortcutsPerforming ArtsMaking A Living Author:Seth Godin
“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” LongActionLife IsKeysPeriodsAreasConsistentKey To SuccessBloggingLong Periods Of Time Author:Darren Rowse
“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.” IfsFeelsShouldFunnyValuesHealthySucceedAmbitionDeserveDrivenGenuineIncomeThoughtfulBlogsBloggingBloggers Author:Steve Pavlina
“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.” IfsThinkingBelieveReasonTurnsWorkPleasureReaderTasksBloggingBloggersCoworkerCompleted Work Author:Scott Adams
“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.” ThinkingHomeThese DaysStayingUnderwearBlogging Author:Marc Andreessen
“The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.” PeopleMindArtKidsSubjectsCollegeDegreesModelsPrisonStudiosExperimentsShelterPigsHomelessCagesUtopiaRevoltBloggingLabsHaresGuineaPrincipledLiberal ArtsGuinea PigsArts Degrees Book:The Ask: A Novel Source: The Ask: A Novel
“My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.” Life IsResultsBlogging Author:Seth Godin
“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.” NeedsWarFeltHugeJust OneThriveBarriersCommentSparksListenersBlogging Author:Imogen Heap