{"author":"Tara Bray Smith","author_id":"Tara+Bray+Smith","total_quotes":4,"quotes":[{"text":"Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.","author":"Tara Bray Smith","tags":["books","bookworm","bookworms","read","readers"],"id":25265,"author_id":"Tara+Bray+Smith"},{"text":"I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. ","author":"Tara Bray Smith","tags":["marginalia","pen","reader"],"id":62322,"author_id":"Tara+Bray+Smith"},{"text":"I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.","author":"Tara Bray Smith","tags":["books","marginalia","margins","paraphrased","readers"],"id":170402,"author_id":"Tara+Bray+Smith"},{"text":"Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant. ","author":"Tara Bray Smith","tags":["book","books","internet","marginalia","movies","read","reading","television","writing"],"id":386681,"author_id":"Tara+Bray+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}