{"quotes":[{"text":"Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.","author":"Clyde Heath","tags":["booker","books","child","clyde","heath","literacy","read","weeds"],"id":71944,"author_id":"Clyde+Heath"},{"text":"There are a lot of lonely kids in this world, but the problem is that they don't know about each other. If the lonely kids could just team up, a lot of good things would happen, but the world is incredibly afraid of lonely people teaming up, and so it does its best to keep them apart.","author":"Matthew Quick","tags":["booker","lonely-kids","world"],"id":136254,"author_id":"Matthew+Quick"},{"text":"The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.","author":"Neil Cross","tags":["booker","literary-fiction","literature","writers","writing"],"id":186774,"author_id":"Neil+Cross"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}