{"quotes":[{"text":"Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["arabesque","book","book-of-oneself","book","exploration","exploration","marrakech","marrakech","marrakesh","marrakesh","medina","moroccan-literature","morocco","morrocan","roman-payne","roman-payne","sahara-desert","saharan-soliloquy","the-arabesque","the-writing-life","the-writing-process","travel","travel-writing","writers","writers-and-writing","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-world"],"id":118150,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.","author":"Jonathan Harnisch","tags":["book","book","book-of-oneself","books","brain","discrimination","disease","drugs","medical","medication","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","mind","schizophrenia","stigma"],"id":124336,"author_id":"Jonathan+Harnisch"},{"text":"When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a 'make sure I have everything' glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America- for I would not be coming back for ten months. (Ch 5- Twenty in Paris).","author":"Andrea Bouchaud","tags":["adventure","airports","book-of-oneself","college","coming-of-age","departure","discovery","home","on-my-own","study-abroad","travel"],"id":337818,"author_id":"Andrea+Bouchaud"},{"text":"Describing colors to a blind is what writing is all about.","author":"Viraj J. Mahajan","tags":["blind","book-of-oneself","inspirational","motivational","novel","writing"],"id":343984,"author_id":"Viraj+J.+Mahajan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}