{"id":13155,"date":"2010-07-09T21:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T04:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/07\/09\/13155.html"},"modified":"2010-07-09T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T04:49:30","slug":"berlioz-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/07\/09\/berlioz-on-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlioz on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cute quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When I talk of my laziness, it only applies to the writing of prose. I have often sat up all night over my scores, and have spent eight hours at a time labouring at instrumentation, without once changing my position; but I have to fight with myself to begin to write a page of prose, and about the tenth line or so I get up, walk about the room, look out into the street, take up a book, and strive by any means to overcome the weariness and fatigue which instantly overpower me. I have to return to the charge eight or ten times before I can finish an article for the <cite>Journal des D&eacute;bats<\/cite>, and it takes me quite two days to write one, even when I like the subject and am interested by it. And then, what erasures, and what scrawls! You should see my first draft!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash;<cite>Memoirs of Hector Berlioz<\/cite>, Dover edition, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MlNY2QgZ3OwC&lpg=PA80&ots=hCBCpRlSQM&dq=%22When%20I%20talk%20of%20my%20laziness%22&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=%22When%20I%20talk%20of%20my%20laziness%22&f=false\">p. 80<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/irontongue.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/hector-berlioz-understands-what-its.html\">Lisa H<\/a>!)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute quote: When I talk of my laziness, it only applies to the writing of prose. I have often sat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","category-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}