{"quotes":[{"text":"Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.","author":"Stephie Davis","tags":["lol","read","study","successful"],"id":451,"author_id":"Stephie+Davis"},{"text":"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading. ","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["books","education","read","reading"],"id":1455,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.","author":"Tom Schulman","tags":["cute","poetry","read","write"],"id":1757,"author_id":"Tom+Schulman"},{"text":"Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["addictive","anonymous","book","book-a-holic","character","compulsion","cure","eyes","feylynn","holic","ink","jazz","jazz-feylynn","life","life-and-times","lost-of-time","pages","paper","read","reading","reading-books","reading-habit","squint","story","texture","thought-on-reading","time","times","word","written"],"id":1891,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.","author":"James D. Sass","tags":["books","noremorse","read","reading"],"id":4532,"author_id":"James+D.+Sass"},{"text":"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["alive","areas","books","dead","death","development","education","endemic","food-for-thought","inform","information","intellect","intellectual","israelmore-ayivor","learn","learning","lesson","library","new","obtain","people","prepare","prepared","read","reading","school","stay-alive","study","studying"],"id":6267,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Reading to small children is a specialty.","author":"Clifton Fadiman","tags":["child","children","read","reading"],"id":8336,"author_id":"Clifton+Fadiman"},{"text":"When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.","author":"Julie Anne Peters","tags":["book","discovery","inspirational","joy","possibilities","read","reading"],"id":10757,"author_id":"Julie+Anne+Peters"},{"text":"Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!","author":"Carol Emshwiller","tags":["appreciate","arts","humanity","read"],"id":11310,"author_id":"Carol+Emshwiller"},{"text":"Knowledge is intellectual art.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["education","educational-philosophy","intellectual","know","knowledge","learning","lifelong-learner","philosophy","read","self-education","self-improvement","studies"],"id":11383,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":662,"pages":67,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}