Lee Gutkind Quotes

Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

The funny thing is that I used to be a blogger, but it wasn't known as 'blogging' at that time. This was in the '99/2000 time frame.

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction."

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

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.

I discovered that I, a writer of what is known as creative nonfiction, could do the research and bridge the gap in my books and lectures through true storytelling. This is not 'dumbing down' or writing for eighth graders. It is writing for readers across cultures, age barriers, social and political landscapes.

The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.

I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

Bloggers are not reporters.

For me, blogging is just like talking.

I think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in the biggest variety of ways, whether it's sketches or stand-up or songs or tweets or television or films.

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my crush had one, too.

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

I was like, 'I want to start a blog to get my ideas out and keep my brain working so in five years I'm not an idiot.'

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

I found Wattpad because I was reading a story on Instagram, actually. They're called 'Imagines,' and they are like little fanfictions that people used to write on Instagram before Wattpad was the place to go.

I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in.

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.

I want to start a blog.

I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging.