{"author":"James Rozoff","author_id":"James+Rozoff","total_quotes":71,"quotes":[{"text":"Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["death","life"],"id":3911,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["potential","self-knowing","self-knowledge","wisdom"],"id":15624,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. And confirming this character to be uninteresting after a few minutes of conversation, I decide that they are unnecessary to my story and begin devising ways to kill them off.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["characters","characters-in-books","characters-in-novels","people","writer","writers","writing"],"id":23178,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["arrogance","ignorance"],"id":38158,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. That’s the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish goals in themselves. To truly be who I have been made to be, made myself to be, ah, that is the only mission worthy of all the life that flows within.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["ambition","desire","destiny","fate","goals","life"],"id":45877,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["death","passage-of-time-memories","past","time"],"id":50102,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["fiction","post-apocalyptic"],"id":51888,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["english","language","shakespeare"],"id":53825,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["alienation","communication","electronics","technology"],"id":61652,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"He who dies with the most toys...Dies a child.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["material-possessions","materialistic","wealth","wealth-accumulation"],"id":62628,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":71,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}