{"quotes":[{"text":"Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["art","artists","artists-life","coffee","creation","creativity","fiction-writing","hyena","inspiration","novelists","payne","roman-payne","work","writing"],"id":3942,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"If you love somebody then tell them how you feel dont be scared of their reaction or rejection life is too short. You should take a chance and if things dont work out as you plan dont worry cuz life moves on and true love will be waiting for you again.","author":"Atul Purohit","tags":["fiction-writing","life","love","novel"],"id":7438,"author_id":"Atul+Purohit"},{"text":"It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["fiction-writing","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-fiction","writing-style"],"id":7661,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"},{"text":"The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.","author":"Elias Zapple","tags":["astronauts","children-s-books","comedy-humor","dragons","fantasy","fiction-writing","humor","humour","knights"],"id":9981,"author_id":"Elias+Zapple"},{"text":"She snorted in amusement at my remark. “When are the guards going to start to notice?” Keith peered into the distance. “Starting now,.","author":"Erica Sehyun Song","tags":["adventure","adventure-fiction","adventures","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","fantasy-ya","fantasy-young-adult","fiction","fiction-fantasy","fiction-novel","fiction-writing","fictional","fictions"],"id":15091,"author_id":"Erica+Sehyun+Song"},{"text":"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["fiction-writing","literature"],"id":24504,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Well, I would tell Danny. I'd probably edit for Josh. That is if there wasanything worth editing.“Joshua Roberts, you had better get your butt on the move!” Dannyhollered as he walked down the stairs.I was nervously waiting for them to leave as I pretended to watch TV inthe front room.“We're going to be late.”“So the hair crisis is under control I see.”“A stray hair will never win between a bottle of gel and a gay man,” hedeclared with a smile. “Joshua!”“I'm coming. I'm coming.”I heard his sandals click on the stairs and I waited to see if the mentalimage matched the real one. To my non surprise it did.","author":"Kaitlin Scott","tags":["danny","fiction","fiction-writing","for-danny","gay-and-lesbian","gay-romance"],"id":40015,"author_id":"Kaitlin+Scott"},{"text":"Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit...","author":"Megan S. Johnston","tags":["fiction-novel","fiction-writing","first-in-series","new-","paranormal-romance-series","paranormal-series","young-adult-fiction"],"id":59321,"author_id":"Megan+S.+Johnston"},{"text":"Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End.","author":"Ken Scott","tags":["fiction-novel","fiction-writing","writing-life"],"id":61947,"author_id":"Ken+Scott"},{"text":"You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["fiction","fiction-writing","james-baldwin","quotes"],"id":67846,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}