{"quotes":[{"text":"On having a backup plan: 'Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go.","author":"Samantha Steele","tags":["acting","books","crazy","dream","follow","heart","inspirational","people","psychiatry","publish","writing"],"id":760,"author_id":"Samantha+Steele"},{"text":"Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!' ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.","author":"Linda F. Radke","tags":["book","market","promote","publish","write"],"id":7084,"author_id":"Linda+F.+Radke"},{"text":"Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorisms","book","book-cover","cover","judge","publish","publisher","writer"],"id":29366,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson.' Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications.","author":"Linda F. Radke","tags":["books","bookstore","publish","write"],"id":29448,"author_id":"Linda+F.+Radke"},{"text":"The internet is killing the art of writing. The big 'publish' button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","criticism","edit","editing","editing","edition","how-to-edit","how-to-publish","how-to-publish-a-book","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","internet","internet-publishing","internet-publishing","internet","online-publishing","online-publishing","paper","positive-criticism","praise","publish","publish-button","self-publishing","self-publishing","self-publishing-tips","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-skill","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":49950,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["advice","publish","publishing","reward","tea","writer","writers","writing","young"],"id":56335,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["book","character","character-development","create","death","depress","emotion","grief","novel","publish","read","sentient","sentient-beings","write","writing"],"id":65613,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["books","brain","die","die-empty","food-for-thought","great","great-leaders","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","live","live-full","live-full-die-empty","mind","natural-abilities","offload","potentials","publish","sing-your-song"],"id":77984,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you.","author":"Linda F. Radke","tags":["books","publish","publisher","write"],"id":101521,"author_id":"Linda+F.+Radke"},{"text":"One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["alphabet","encyclopedia","israelmore-ayivor","library","one-step-at-a-time","publish","publishing","writers","writing"],"id":120721,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}