{"quotes":[{"text":"Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["addictive","anonymous","book","book-a-holic","character","compulsion","cure","eyes","feylynn","holic","ink","jazz","jazz-feylynn","life","life-and-times","lost-of-time","pages","paper","read","reading","reading-books","reading-habit","squint","story","texture","thought-on-reading","time","times","word","written"],"id":1891,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.","author":"Megan Hart","tags":["ink","love","poem","synaesthesia"],"id":4501,"author_id":"Megan+Hart"},{"text":"I am feeling more. I feel everything more. I cannot express it. I can hardly keep track of it all. It is you! All you! Everything!","author":"Dawn Metcalf","tags":["ink","ink-to-joy","invisible","joy","the-twixt"],"id":12492,"author_id":"Dawn+Metcalf"},{"text":"The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.","author":"Emily Post","tags":["ink","letter","magic-carpet","paper","personality"],"id":14796,"author_id":"Emily+Post"},{"text":"Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["angels-and-poets","famous-","famous-by-famous-poets","flame","haiku","ink","knowledge","lexicons","modern-classics","nanowrimo","national-poetry-month","original-source","poetry","poetry","poets","stars","world-poetry-movement"],"id":15199,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["adulation","beauty","dante","forlorn","ink","paper","passions","string","violin","woman","wood"],"id":23420,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"...There was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["handwriting","humor","ink","writing"],"id":48349,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["agonise","agonising","assume","bride","cadence","consume","creative-writing","creativity","dandelion","erase","fly","forgotten","groom","hands","heart","hips","ink","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","letters","lips","mark","marriage","months","novelist","page","paper","pen","pencil","penned","poems-on-writing","poet","poetess","poetry","quote","on-writing","rhyme","rotten","selfish","selfishness","silences","sodden","spaces","think","trodden","windy","word","words","write","writer","writing","written","wrote"],"id":52245,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Ink, a Drug.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["drugs","ink","writers-on-writing","writing"],"id":55558,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"Best friend is like a pen and we're the paper. We'll not complete without their ink.","author":"Lucy 'Aisy","tags":["best","bestfriends","fairytale","friend","friends","ink","me","my","paper","pen","quote","quotes","teen"],"id":99437,"author_id":"Lucy+%27Aisy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}