{"quotes":[{"text":"Without literature, life is hell.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["literature"],"id":6,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?” “Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he’s already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn’t been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.","author":"Alasdair Gray","tags":["glasgow","literature"],"id":480,"author_id":"Alasdair+Gray"},{"text":"Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["aspiring-writers","books","creative-people","creative-process","creative-writing","creativity","fiction","fundamentals-of-creative-writing","fundamentals-of-writing","literature","on-writing","power-of-words","on-writing","reading","short-story","stories","story-writing","storytelling","tips-on-writing","write","writers","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft","writing-fiction","writing-from-the-heart","writing-ideas","writing-style"],"id":549,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"Literature is news that stays news.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["books","literature","reading"],"id":807,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["always","chronic","inveterate","literature","literature","lover","natural","nature","nature-lover","poet","poetry","poets","should","ten-words","writers","writers-on-writing"],"id":848,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["always","chronic","inveterate","literature","literature","lover","natural","nature","nature-lover","poet","poetry","poets","should","ten-words","writers","writers-on-writing"],"id":848,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.","author":"Declan Kiberd","tags":["fiction","james-joyce","joyce","literature","ulysses"],"id":1072,"author_id":"Declan+Kiberd"},{"text":"The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because I realize it's presumptuous. Also, excuse the first word, and the term in general.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["apologies","literature"],"id":1207,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"People with vision sees opportunity where there is problem. They see money not problem.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["creativity","depression","destiny","dream","dreams","earning","endtime","family","fantasy","feminism","fiction-food-for-though","forgiveness","freedom","friends","friendship","future","grief","heart","history","humanity-humour","imagination","inspirational","intelligence-is-attractive","joy","leadership","life-and-living-life-philosophy","life","literature","living","loss","love","magic-spirit","marriage","meditation-men","mind","money","motivation","motivational","motivational","music","nature","pain","passion-peace","patience","patience-johnson","pentecost","people","politics","positive-thinking","power","prayer","psychology","purpose","quote","quotes","reading","reality-relationship","repentance","sadness","self-help","self-improvement","society","soul","spiritual","strength","time","trust-war","vision","wisdom","women","words","work","world"],"id":1374,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"},{"text":"You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["advice","battle","big-sister","book","born-ready","cry","fiction","girl-power","girls","growing-up","guidance","inspiration","life","lit","literature","little-monster","love","mentor","monster","nonfiction","novel","personal-purpose","self-esteem","self-help","sweat","tears","teens","xjennifer-elisabeth","young-adult"],"id":1539,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2788,"pages":279,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}