{"id":37566,"date":"2012-08-24T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=37566"},"modified":"2012-08-23T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T03:08:24","slug":"writing-the-great-invention-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/writing-the-great-invention-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing: The Great Invention of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Margaret-Atwood-Edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Margaret-Atwood-Edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"margaret-atwood-edited\" width=\"306\" height=\"302\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37567\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cTake a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can\u2019t sharpen it on the plane, because you can\u2019t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/vintageanchor.tumblr.com\/post\/29898211789\/margaret-atwoods-10-rules-for-writing-fiction-1\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Atwood\u2019s rules for writing fiction<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cI would like to write another book for children but I spend all my spare time just answering the letters I get from children about the books I have already written.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/08\/the-morning-mail-is-my-enemy.html\" target=\"_blank\"> \u2014E.B. White, 1961<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWriting, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye\u2014is the great invention of the world.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/23086\" target=\"_blank\">Abraham Lincoln\u2019s favorite poetry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps inevitable but ill-advised: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2012\/08\/british-woman-to-hold-50-shades-book-burning-says-porny-trilogy-is-vile\" target=\"_blank\">a <em>50 Shades of Grey<\/em> book burning<\/a>. 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Therefore: take two pencils.\u201d Margaret Atwood\u2019s rules for writing fiction. \u201cI would like to write another book for children but I spend all my spare time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[7590,5016,453,8498,714,149,20543,7723],"class_list":["post-37566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-50-shades-of-grey","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-e-b-white","tag-herman-hesse","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-news","tag-on-the-shelf","tag-roundup"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Writing: The Great Invention of the World by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 24, 2012 \u2013 \u201cTake a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. 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