{"author":"Stewart Stafford","author_id":"Stewart+Stafford","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"All vampires are brothers in the brotherhood of night!","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["night","nighttime","vampire-series","vampires"],"id":668,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["advice","learning","mistakes-we-make"],"id":4106,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["kindness","kindness","selfishness","selflessness"],"id":8016,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["atrocities","compassion","crises","crises-solution","crises-solutions"],"id":35296,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["conformity","creativity","imitate","imitation","imitations","innovation","innovation"],"id":37521,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["comfort","dreaming","dreams","rest","sleep"],"id":42589,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["clichés","first-drafts","originality","rewrites","rewriting","writing","writing-advice","writing-advice-process","writing-process"],"id":46107,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["philosophy","philosophy-of-life-mind","writing","writing-life","writing-process"],"id":50746,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["creation","imagination","imagine","man","mankind","nature","nature-s-beauty"],"id":83096,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"},{"text":"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.","author":"Stewart Stafford","tags":["confidence","confidence","parenting","parents","parents-and-children"],"id":90370,"author_id":"Stewart+Stafford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}