{"quotes":[{"text":"The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened.","author":"L.J. deVet","tags":["book","book-love","book-lover","book-lovers","book","books","bookworm","bookworms","l-j-devet","read","reader","readers-and-writers","reading","reading-books","reading","write","writing"],"id":22894,"author_id":"L.J.+deVet"},{"text":"Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.","author":"Thomas C. Foster","tags":["imagination","readers-and-writers"],"id":24239,"author_id":"Thomas+C.+Foster"},{"text":"So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.","author":"Annie Dillard","tags":["books","readers-and-writers","reading","writing","writing-craft","writing-process"],"id":37578,"author_id":"Annie+Dillard"},{"text":"...What really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.","author":"Stephen Koch","tags":["readers-and-writers","voice","writing"],"id":39123,"author_id":"Stephen+Koch"},{"text":"I have falling in love with reading.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["lifelong-learner","lifelong-learning","lifelong-reader","lifelong-reading","read","read-and-write","read-for-a-lifetime","reader","readers","readers-and-writers","reading","reading-aloud","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading","reading-readers-writers","reading-secrets","reading-thinking"],"id":40560,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.","author":"Nicholaa Spencer","tags":["book","bookworm","inspirational","read","readers-and-writers","reading","reading-books"],"id":43623,"author_id":"Nicholaa+Spencer"},{"text":"All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us absorb other people's words, feeling like we have gotten to know the authors personally in our own ways, even if just a tiny bit. True, we may also harbor jealousy or resentment, disbelief or disappointment. We may wish we had written those words ourselves or berate ourselves for knowing we never could or sigh with relief that we didn't, but thank goodness someone else has.","author":"Pamela Paul","tags":["bookish","bookishness","books","readers-and-writers","reading","writing"],"id":56268,"author_id":"Pamela+Paul"},{"text":"A good reader has the power to move the world.","author":"Aman Jassal","tags":["book","book","power","power-of-words","powerful","readers","readers-and-writers"],"id":68704,"author_id":"Aman+Jassal"},{"text":"Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["appetite","appetite-for-life","appetites","assortment","assortments","canapés","delightful","delightful","equivalent","gastronomy","inspirational","inspirational-living","inspirational","literary","literary-fiction","literary-inspiration","literary","literary","mezze","morsels","reader","readers","readers-and-reading","readers-and-writers","readers-and-writing","readers-favorite","readership","short","short-fiction","short-stories","short-story","short-story-collection","tapas","tasty","tasty-treats"],"id":73914,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.","author":"Tina Smith","tags":["readers-and-writers","sadness","tears","writer"],"id":79144,"author_id":"Tina+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}