{"author":"Leo Rosten","author_id":"Leo+Rosten","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["god","me","why "],"id":14120,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["writing"],"id":124988,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["animals","children","humor","w-c-fields"],"id":135361,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["capacity","confront","imagined "],"id":184744,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["communication","insight "],"id":185293,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense. ","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["truth is","stranger","sense "],"id":199017,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["writing","writing-life"],"id":220345,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["push","brains","hearts "],"id":229067,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["curiosity"],"id":240321,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"},{"text":"The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.","author":"Leo Rosten","tags":["inspirational","purpose","truth"],"id":278578,"author_id":"Leo+Rosten"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}