{"author":"Robert Ludlum","author_id":"Robert+Ludlum","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["characterization","integral "],"id":1129,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["mind","reject","remembering","trick"],"id":12660,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers).","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["marriage"],"id":81107,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["cities","dying","kill","old-men"],"id":102718,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ― unless it is a woman.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["crowd","notice","run","street","woman"],"id":121591,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["advice","counsel","wives"],"id":133253,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["conscience","inspirational","truth"],"id":157042,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"I get annoyed when a self-indulgent writer just shows off what he knows but doesn't really tell a story. To me storytelling is first a craft. Then if you're lucky, it becomes an art form. But first, it's got to be a craft.. You've got to have a beginning, middle and end. And I have sort of applied the theatrical principles to writing. Throw the story in the air and see what's going to happen.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["writing"],"id":184147,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["crazy","earth","galaxy","planet","solar-system","world"],"id":187660,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"},{"text":"You appear to be a mass of contradictions,' Dr Washburn said. 'There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.","author":"Robert Ludlum","tags":["contradiction","identity","pain","pensiveness","violence"],"id":203235,"author_id":"Robert+Ludlum"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}