{"quotes":[{"text":"Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["change","coming-of-age","dexter-palmer","life-changing","narrator","the-dream-of-perpetual-motion","transformation"],"id":43907,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"But you became self-aware. Somehow, you began to hear the Narrator’s voice. You realised that you were a character in a story. You tried to fight. These actions have disrupted the flow of fiction.","author":"Dylan Randall Wong En Lai","tags":["character","fiction","narrator","self-awareness","story"],"id":88223,"author_id":"Dylan+Randall+Wong+En+Lai"},{"text":"Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... But before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time.","author":"Jake Vander-Ark","tags":["beauty","coming-of-age","judge","narrator","perfection","puppy-love"],"id":136756,"author_id":"Jake+Vander-Ark"},{"text":"It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["dexter-palmer","language","narrator","speaking","spoken-word","the-dream-of-perpetual-motion","words","writer","writing"],"id":183550,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["again","art","books","creative-writing","creativity","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","moment","narrative","narrator","novelist","plot","poet","poetry","quotes","read","rebirth","reborn","relive","resurrect","resurrection","salvation","story","storyteller","write","writer","writing","written"],"id":222451,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"So let's just forget about the whole thing and agree never to speak of it again. And I promise I'll never lie to you again.Ah, but surely you must be saying, 'Hey! Isn't this entire story a work of fiction and therefore one big lie?'Perhaps. But we already agreed never to speak of it again.","author":"Jason Carter Eaton","tags":["facttracker","fiction","lie","narrator"],"id":235937,"author_id":"Jason+Carter+Eaton"},{"text":"But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me—I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["cowardly","dexter-palmer","failure","hero","narrator","not-good-enough","the-dream-of-perpetual-motion"],"id":285408,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["change","change-the-world","fantasy","fiction","future","imagination","literature","narrative","narrator","power","power-of-words","reality","responsibility","responsible","shaping","stories","story","story-telling","storyteller","storytellers","storytelling","true","truth","truths","voice","voice-of-wisdom","wisdom","world"],"id":335520,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["art","arts","awareness","book","books","born","conscience","conscious","consciousness","creative","creative-arts","creative-process","creativity","diary","epic","fantasy","fiction","hear","inner-voice","journal","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","language","literary","literature","narration","narrative","narrator","non-fiction","novels","plot","poem","poet","publish","quote","about-writing","read","reader","sentient","speak","stories","story","storyteller","talk","think","thinking","thoughts","voice","words","write","writer","writing"],"id":475656,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}