{"author":"Walter Moers","author_id":"Walter+Moers","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"Life is too precious to be left to chance.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["chance","life"],"id":35105,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["humour","insanity"],"id":49365,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"Approaching the forest from the west was no army, but a delegation of Grailsundanian master surgeons on their way to an appendix conference . . . But that isn't the craziest part of the story - oh, no, my boy, for approaching from the east was a party of itinerant watchmakers bound for the pocket-watch fair at Wimbleton . . . But not even that is the craziest part of the story! For apporaching from the south were over a hundred armourers and locksmiths on their way to Florinth, where some power-hungry prince had commissioned them to build a monstrous war machine . . . Well, that would be enough crazy coincedences for an averagely crazy story but the battle of Nurn Forest involved the most improbable coincedences in the history of Zamonia. For entering the forest, this time from the north came a delegation of alchemists.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["alchemists","armourers","coincedence","funny","improbable","locksmiths","surgeons","watchmakers"],"id":112990,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"Rumo!' said Rumo. 'That's right!' Smyke exclaimed. 'You Rumo, me Smyke.' 'You Rumo, me Smyke.' Rumo repeated eagerly. 'No, no.' Smyke chuckled.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["cute","funny","repeating"],"id":132590,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["writing"],"id":169953,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["circus","city-of-dreaming-books","dreaming-books","fantasy","labryinth-of-dreaming-books","uncertain","uncertainty","walter-moers"],"id":179356,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["fiction","on-fiction","reading"],"id":240950,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["fantasy","fantasy-young-adult","fiction"],"id":254981,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["bluebear","city-of-dreaming-books","knowledge","learning","library","study"],"id":288635,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"},{"text":"There were adventure stories supplied with cloths for mopping your brow, thrillers containing pressed leaves of soothing valerian to be sniffed when the suspense became too great, and books with stout locks sealed by the Atlantean censorship authorities ('Sale permitted, reading prohibited!'). One shop sold nothing but 'half' works that broke off in the middle because their author had died while writing them; another specialised in novels whose protagonists were insects. I also saw a Wolperting shop that sold nothing but books on chess and another patronised exclusively by dwarfs with blond beards, all of whom wore eye-shades.","author":"Walter Moers","tags":["books"],"id":311898,"author_id":"Walter+Moers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}