{"id":3200,"date":"2015-06-16T07:50:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:19:27","slug":"not-only-is-it-ok-to-risk-failure-its-necessary-anthony-doerr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/not-only-is-it-ok-to-risk-failure-its-necessary-anthony-doerr\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not only is it OK to risk failure; it&#8217;s necessary.&#8221;  Anthony Doerr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Anthony-Doerr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4075 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Anthony-Doerr.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Doerr\" width=\"136\" height=\"187\"align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonydoerr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Doerr<\/a>, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, believes &#8220;We need to live with the fear that we will stink, that no one will pay any attention, that we will fall like trees in an empty forest: the fear that we are going to take our glorious, flawless, nebulous ideas and butcher them on the altar of reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only is it OK to risk failure; it&#8217;s necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marlene&#8217;s Musings:<\/strong> Feel better now? If a Pulitzer Prize winner can think it&#8217;s okay . . . no, it&#8217;s necessary to fail. . . then let&#8217;s all fail. No worries about your writing. . . Go for it. Just Write!<\/p>\n<p>Quote from &#8220;Costume Drama,&#8221; Real Simple magazine, October 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Doerr, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, believes &#8220;We need to live with the fear that we will stink, that no one will pay any attention, that we will fall like trees in an empty forest: the fear that we are going to take our glorious, flawless, nebulous ideas and butcher them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[711],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-anthony-doerr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-PC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}