{"author":"Roman Payne","author_id":"Roman+Payne","total_quotes":154,"quotes":[{"text":"Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["art","artists","artists-life","coffee","creation","creativity","fiction-writing","hyena","inspiration","novelists","payne","roman-payne","work","writing"],"id":3942,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["beauty","body-vs-mind","choices","dancing","life-choices","life-decisions-choices","literature","love","night","parties","roman-payne","temptation","wanderess","woman","women"],"id":8976,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["balance","coffee","day","drinking","eat","food","moon","night","payne","roman","seasons","smoke","smoking","stoic","sun","times","wine"],"id":16079,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["-on-","novelists","novelists-life","oedipus","oedipus-the-king","writers-life"],"id":20037,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adam-and-eve","beauty","blush","blushing","childhood","childlike","childlikeness","children","eden","innocence","payne","roman-payne","romance"],"id":21902,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a 'serious' novel.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["experience","growth","hard-times","hardship","jail","jailbird","learning","literature","novels","prison","roman-payne","serious","seriousness"],"id":23955,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"So the nymphs they spoke,we kissed and laid.By noontime’s hourour love was made.Like braided chains of crocus stems,we lay entwined, I laid with them.Our breath, one glassy, tideless sea,our bodies draping wearily,we slept, I slept so lucidly,with hopes to stay this memory.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["coming-of-spring","love","nymphs","poetry","sleep","spring"],"id":25968,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["caprice","carpe-diem","great","learning","life","life-lessons","literature","novel","payne","regret","regrets","roman","roman-payne","sigh","time","wind","youth"],"id":27676,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I will forgive her a large nose, a cleft lip, even crossed-eyes; and I’ll bathe in the jouissance of her intoxicating odour.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adventure","adventuress","aeging","aging-well","aging-with-grace","all-women-are-beautiful","beautiful-scents","beauty-in-aeging","beauty-in-aging","beauty-in-women","big-nose","bravery","cleft-lip","courage","cross-eyes","dance","dancing","dreameress","exploration","explore","explorer","feeling-good","female","female-beauty","female-characters","female-empowerment","female-hero","female-liberation","females","feminine","femininity","feminism","freedom","girl","girl-power","girl","girls","growing","growth","imagination","imaginative","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspire","large-nose","life-and-living","life-change","life-philosophy","literary","living-life-to-the-fullest","loving-life","olfactory-sensors","parisian-reverie","passion","passionate","passionate-life","passionate-living","revitalize","revitalizing","roman-payne","scent-of-a-woman","scents","seize-the-day","self-acceptance","self-love","self-value","self-worth","sense-of-smell","smell-of-a-women","the-value-of-life","the-wanderess","wander","wanderess","wild-woman","wildness","woman","woman-s-character","woman-s-strength","womanhood","women","women-s-inspirational","women-s-liberation","women-s-motivational","women-s-power","women-s-scents-olfactory","women-s-strength"],"id":29806,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["-interview","books","escape","flame","heroic","heroism","interview","novel-writing","novelist","publishing","roman","roman-payne","tediousness","voluptuousness","writer","writers","writing"],"id":29961,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":154,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}