{"author":"Ken Scott","author_id":"Ken+Scott","total_quotes":9,"quotes":[{"text":"Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["determination","life-lessons","life-living","resolve"],"id":12473,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["fiction-novel","fiction-writing","writing-life"],"id":61947,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["boxing","life","philosophy-of-life"],"id":87693,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["education","long-words","simplicity","writing"],"id":169205,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["fiction","life-of-a-writer","writing","writing-fiction"],"id":196397,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["good-story","rioja","writing-process"],"id":357260,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"Want to be a writer? Take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["writing-process"],"id":362950,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["fate","fickle","golden-egg"],"id":380190,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["drinking","drinking-heavily","fighting","whoring","writing"],"id":450569,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}