{"id":12339,"date":"2007-12-18T20:06:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T01:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2014-01-08T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T23:06:07","slug":"crying-wolfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/18\/crying-wolfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Crying Wolfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can no longer remember when I copied out this Gene Wolfe quote or from what source I plucked it, but   it still feels  as true to me now as it was back then &#8230; whenever that happened to be. (And if anyone can place the provenance, please raise your hand!)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I don&#8217;t think that for any reason except dire economic necessity a writer ought to send out material merely because it&#8217;s salable. I think he hurts himself; he hurts the field; he hurts the publication in which the material appears. Mere saleability is the ethics of a KMart. I think writing is an art, and without trying to be too pretentious, I think it ought to have a better set of ethics than an army\/navy store.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes to mind whenever I think I&#8217;ve completed a sufficient number of drafts to feel comfortable releasing a story into the wild.  <\/p>\n<p>Because  an inner voice then pipes up,  asking, &#8220;Are you sure?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can no longer remember when I copied out this Gene Wolfe quote or from what source I plucked it, but it still feels as true to me now as it was back then &#8230; whenever that happened to be. (And if anyone can place the provenance, please raise your hand!) I don&#8217;t think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[380],"class_list":["post-12339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gene-wolfe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}