{"quotes":[{"text":"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","book-club","book-review","book-reviews","books","bored","boredom","ignorance","ignorant","literature","reading","review","reviews","subjective","subjectivity","writers","writing"],"id":3237,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.","author":"Jesse Abundis","tags":["amwriting","talk","writing"],"id":39602,"author_id":"Jesse+Abundis"},{"text":"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["amwriting","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","writer","writers","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-world","writing"],"id":58696,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["amwriting","daydreamer","daydreaming","daydreams","master-of-arts","novelist","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","storybook-writer","writers","writing"],"id":102486,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind.","author":"Davee Jones","tags":["amwriting","fiction-writing","writing-craft"],"id":145273,"author_id":"Davee+Jones"},{"text":"You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["amwriting","character","insightful","occupy","philosophy","philosophy-of-mind","philosophy-of-people","point-of-view","think","thinking","world","writing","writing-process"],"id":156649,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advice","advice-for-writers","advice-to-writers","amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","book","books","daily-ritual","daily-rituals","essay","essays","fiction","forget","forgot","grammar","grammar-humor","habit","habits","humor","humour","literature","memory","nonfiction","poet","poetry","poets","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","remember","ritual","rituals","satire","spelling","tips","writer","writers","writing","writing-advice","writing-tips"],"id":185052,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","books","digital","e-books","early-adopter","early-adopters","ebooks","ink","invention","literature","luddite","luddites","print","printing","reading","smell","technology","technophobia","writers","writing"],"id":204334,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["amwriting","funny","humor","inspiration","motherfucker","motherfucking","quotes","story","storytelling","telling-stories","twitter","wisdom","writing","writing-process"],"id":285889,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"Writer's block is just another name for fear.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["amwriting","creativity","fear","self-expression","writers","writers-block","writers-on-writing","writers"],"id":288679,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}