{"quotes":[{"text":"The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.","author":"Joy Williams","tags":["life-purpose","nothingness","purpose","serve","somethingness","why-we-write","writers","writing"],"id":14920,"author_id":"Joy+Williams"},{"text":"The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to Nothingness.","author":"William Barrett","tags":["doubt","god","meaninglessness","nakedness","nothingness","relation","religion","self"],"id":17887,"author_id":"William+Barrett"},{"text":"Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.","author":"Alice Fulton","tags":["belief","cascade","faith","god","inspiration","nothingness"],"id":18956,"author_id":"Alice+Fulton"},{"text":"I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.","author":"Charles Lee","tags":["black","blackness","darkness","darkness-and-light","empty","glimmer","hopeless","light","no-hope","nothingness","shadows","shine","twinkle"],"id":19608,"author_id":"Charles+Lee"},{"text":"-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["nothing","nothingness","patti-smith"],"id":20961,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"Don't ever underestimate the value and power of doing nothing sometime.","author":"Aditya Ajmera","tags":["mind","nothingness","silence","stillness"],"id":23444,"author_id":"Aditya+Ajmera"},{"text":"The wise man is one who knows, the significance and nothingness of his life.","author":"Aditya Ajmera","tags":["beingness","mindfulness","nothingness","purpose-of-life","wise"],"id":23946,"author_id":"Aditya+Ajmera"},{"text":"Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["alone","empty","emptyness","nothingness"],"id":25781,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"They laboriously do nothing.","author":"Seneca","tags":["nothingness"],"id":27144,"author_id":"Seneca"},{"text":"But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my own characters or my own worlds -- I don't care about them. . . . I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.","author":"Rainbow Rowell","tags":["creation","fandom","fanfiction","fangirling","nothingness","writing"],"id":40393,"author_id":"Rainbow+Rowell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":127,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}