{"author":"Thomas Mallon","author_id":"Thomas+Mallon","total_quotes":6,"quotes":[{"text":"To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.","author":"Thomas Mallon","tags":["history","plagiarism"],"id":10378,"author_id":"Thomas+Mallon"},{"text":"One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.","author":"Thomas Mallon","tags":["writing","society","want "],"id":41299,"author_id":"Thomas+Mallon"},{"text":"The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.","author":"Thomas Mallon","tags":["good","you","see "],"id":64946,"author_id":"Thomas+Mallon"},{"text":"I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but I know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.","author":"Thomas Mallon","tags":["inspirational"],"id":116099,"author_id":"Thomas+Mallon"},{"text":"The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.","author":"Thomas Mallon","tags":["science","sailing","solar "],"id":233778,"author_id":"Thomas+Mallon"},{"text":"I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.","author":"Thomas Mallon","tags":["myself","god","believe "],"id":427015,"author_id":"Thomas+Mallon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}