{"quotes":[{"text":"...If you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!","author":"Lilian Jackson Braun","tags":["cats","profanity","swearing"],"id":7709,"author_id":"Lilian+Jackson+Braun"},{"text":"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.'].","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["humor","prayer","profanity","relief","you-ll-completely-understand-why"],"id":14214,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["bullshit","humor","profanity","shit","vulgarity"],"id":17798,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I've seen beginning writers pepper curse words through sentence after sentence.'If you don't -blanking- get your -blanking-blank-blank- in to this house this -blanking- minute, I'm going to -blank- your -blank- and nail it to the -blanking- door.'Two things happen when I read this junk: I get bored and I get angry. I didn't pick up your book to read garbage. If this is as clever as you can be, I don't want to read your prose. In life if you met someone who spoke like this, you'd want to flee. Then why put this stuff on the page?As near as I can determine, this abomination occurs because a writer is corrupted by the awful -blanking- dialog that movies inflict on us these days. It's also a sign of insecurity. The writer wonders if the dialog is strong enough and decides a lot of -blanking-blank- will do the trick.Someone might object that this kind of dialog is realistic in certain situations--intense scenes involving policemen or soldiers for example. I can only reply that in my research I spend considerable time with policemen and soldiers. Few of them curse any more than a normal person would. This garbage isn't realistic. It merely draws attention to itself and holds back the story. Use it sparingly.","author":"David Morrell","tags":["profanity","writing","writing-advice","writing-craft"],"id":67901,"author_id":"David+Morrell"},{"text":"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!","author":"John Waters","tags":["books","fuck","profanity","reading"],"id":94534,"author_id":"John+Waters"},{"text":"I'm going to enjoy this.”“What?” I asked. “Hell?","author":"J.X. Burros","tags":["death","profanity","scarlet-spotlight","vampire"],"id":113948,"author_id":"J.X.+Burros"},{"text":"You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","argument","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","control","creative-writing","essay","inspirational","knowledge","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","philosophy","profanity","proverbs","public-speaking","quotes","relationships","reserved","reticent","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","sentences","slip-of-tongue","speak-less","speaking","speech","speechwriting","story","tacit","taciturnity","tag-lines","talkative","talking","thinking","thought","thoughts","tongue","wisdom","words","writing"],"id":139585,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Scummer, pox and wound rot!' roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. 'Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!","author":"Tamora Pierce","tags":["anger","cursing","profanity","rage"],"id":171578,"author_id":"Tamora+Pierce"},{"text":"As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I’d keep the code a secret. As I’ve known for a long, long time now, hell is going to be totally fucking worth it.","author":"Sarah Royal","tags":["humor","lying","profanity","religion"],"id":200980,"author_id":"Sarah+Royal"},{"text":"Thirty-four, still undecided on a name, sat practicing his Realm tongue with Draker, although much of the lesson seemed to consist of the correct use of profanity. 'No,' the big man shook his shaggy head. 'Pig-fucker not fuck-pigger.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["correct","curse","fuck-obscenity","funny","language","learn","lesson","name","pig","practice","profanity","tongue"],"id":211983,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}