{"quotes":[{"text":"Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alibi","creativity","escapade","escape","escapee","freelance","freelancer","great-mind","intellect","michael-bassey-johnson","pen","publishing","random-thought","refuge","scribble","writer","writers","writing"],"id":3125,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.","author":"Anne Fadiman","tags":["imagination","muses","paper","pen","writer","writing"],"id":4454,"author_id":"Anne+Fadiman"},{"text":"When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["silence","easy","pen "],"id":8076,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["determination","direction","future","goals","hand","life","map","new-years","new-years-day","pen","road","write","written"],"id":14702,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["agony","agony","bleed","bleeding-heart","heart","heart-of-a-poet","heartache","heartbroken","numb","pen","poet","quill","quiller","torpid","writer","writers"],"id":26865,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your poetry.","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["book","courting","dating","heart","pen","poetry","poetry","tickle","writer","writers"],"id":29358,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"},{"text":"When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["creative-flow","creative-genius","creative-minds","creative-muse","creative-process","creative-writing","creativity","inspiration-for-writers","lyrical-writing","lyricism","muses","nanowrimo","napowrimo","national-novel-writing-month","national-poetry-month","nobel-prize-for-literature","nobel-prize-in-literature","pen","singing-and-dancing","world-book-day","world-poetry-day","writers-and-writing"],"id":42405,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.","author":"Natalie Goldberg","tags":["care","compassion","cow","detail","examination","experience","forever","life","live","living","moment","moments","novel","paper","pen","poem","short-story","touch","write","writers","writing"],"id":49488,"author_id":"Natalie+Goldberg"},{"text":"The pen is my true salvation. God is not.","author":"Khali Raymond","tags":["god","love","pen","salvation"],"id":49700,"author_id":"Khali+Raymond"},{"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"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":101,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}