{"author":"Chuck Wendig","author_id":"Chuck+Wendig","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"He's heard tales of the Clone Wars -tales spoken by his own father. He knows how war goes. It's not many wars, but just one, drawn out again and again, cut up into slices so it seems more manageable.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["science-fiction","star-wars"],"id":24651,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["blackbirds","chuck-wendig","vampires"],"id":59862,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["dark","grey","light"],"id":62173,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"The Empire must fall.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["empire","fall"],"id":77749,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["no-pain-no-gain","risk","writing"],"id":90832,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["writing-process"],"id":108224,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"It starts with my mother….Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? That’s why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their stories first. If women told most of the stories, though, then all the best stories would be about Mommy Problems.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["issues","mother"],"id":124610,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["writing-advice"],"id":139237,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["mystery","questions","writing-advice"],"id":158397,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"},{"text":"Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.","author":"Chuck Wendig","tags":["failure","learning","mistakes"],"id":192457,"author_id":"Chuck+Wendig"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}