{"author":"Michelle Richmond","author_id":"Michelle+Richmond","total_quotes":4,"quotes":[{"text":"But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.","author":"Michelle Richmond","tags":["divorce","earthquake","earthquakes","marriage"],"id":98497,"author_id":"Michelle+Richmond"},{"text":"It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.","author":"Michelle Richmond","tags":["character","critique","workshop","writer","writing"],"id":211890,"author_id":"Michelle+Richmond"},{"text":"History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.","author":"Michelle Richmond","tags":["history","memories","memory","remembering","stories"],"id":441843,"author_id":"Michelle+Richmond"},{"text":"To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. ","author":"Michelle Richmond","tags":["college","degree","write","writer"],"id":452832,"author_id":"Michelle+Richmond"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}