{"id":2405,"date":"2014-12-23T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:23:20","slug":"an-author-is-an-amateur-who-never-quits-richard-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/quotes-of-inspiration\/an-author-is-an-amateur-who-never-quits-richard-bach\/","title":{"rendered":"An author is an amateur who never quits. \u2014 Richard Bach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-deep-burgandy-color has-text-color has-link-color has-def-font-size wp-elements-546bfa882924cbd7fef8288058448325 has-background\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:600;background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/smudge1.png&apos;);background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;\"><blockquote><p>\u201cI AM SO SLOW!<br>All my life there have been bright and clear events, all of them happening in plain sight, but I haven\u2019t noticed them, till all of a sudden now.\u00a0 They\u2019ve never been secrets, they\u2019re like friendly dogs, going for walks with me year after year, and I never noticed.\u201d<\/p><cite>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/richardbach.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Bach<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-def-font-size\">I love discovering new things about writers.&nbsp; You might remember&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/richardbach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Bach<\/a>&nbsp;as the author of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jonathan-Livingston-Seagull-Richard-Bach\/dp\/147679331X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418587862&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=jonathan+livingston+seagull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoy Richard\u2019s Bach\u2019s musings. . . here\u2019s the beginning of his&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/richardbach.com\/a-new-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September 7, 2014 blog post:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might enjoy&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/richardbach.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posts by Richard Bach<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jonathan-Livingston-Seagull.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jonathan-Livingston-Seagull-150x150.png\" alt=\"Jonathan Livingston Seagull\" class=\"wp-image-2408\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-def-font-size\">October 25, 2014 was the publication date of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/richardbach.com\/autographs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Edition of&nbsp;<em>Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp; It\u2019s the complete edition, with Part 4, written immediately after Part 3, &nbsp;years ago, but never published with the first parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI AM SO SLOW!All my life there have been bright and clear events, all of them happening in plain sight, but I haven\u2019t noticed them, till all of a sudden now.\u00a0 They\u2019ve never been secrets, they\u2019re like friendly dogs, going for walks with me year after year, and I never noticed.\u201d \u2014 Richard Bach I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-with-comments","format":"standard","meta":{"selected_specialist_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2461,2462],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-jonathan-livingston-seagull","tag-richard-bach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14929,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/14929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}