{"author":"Raina Telgemeier","author_id":"Raina+Telgemeier","total_quotes":3,"quotes":[{"text":"All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.","author":"Raina Telgemeier","tags":["reading","voice","story "],"id":10102,"author_id":"Raina+Telgemeier"},{"text":"I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.","author":"Raina Telgemeier","tags":["color","end","black-and-white "],"id":146637,"author_id":"Raina+Telgemeier"},{"text":"When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'.","author":"Raina Telgemeier","tags":["smile","myself","looking back "],"id":464342,"author_id":"Raina+Telgemeier"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}