{"quotes":[{"text":"It's not courage so much as stubbornness,' Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. 'I don't like to lose.","author":"Django Wexler","tags":["books","courage","reading-books","stubbornness"],"id":535,"author_id":"Django+Wexler"},{"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":"It plumps up your thinker and fills up your heart. And where you end up is not where you start.","author":"Brynne Barnes","tags":["books","reading","reading-books"],"id":3266,"author_id":"Brynne+Barnes"},{"text":"Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.","author":"Byron Ortiz","tags":["literature","reading-books"],"id":5633,"author_id":"Byron+Ortiz"},{"text":"Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.","author":"Mark Helprin","tags":["books","reading","reading-books","reading-habits"],"id":5875,"author_id":"Mark+Helprin"},{"text":"Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do it in the first place---because dollar for dollar, hour per hour, it's the most expedient way to get from our proscribed little 'here' to an imagined, intriguing there'. Part time machine, part Concorde, part ejector seat, books are our salvation.","author":"Sara Nelson","tags":["bookaholics","love-of-reading","reading-books"],"id":7857,"author_id":"Sara+Nelson"},{"text":"These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.","author":"Christopher Isherwood","tags":["reading-books"],"id":9624,"author_id":"Christopher+Isherwood"},{"text":"Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","book","book-reading","books","curriculum-vitae","cv","experience","fun","funny","funny","hobbies","hobby","hobby-of-reading","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","knowledge","library","library-books","motivation","motivational","motivational","noble","noblest","philosophy","problems","reading","reading-books","resume","solutions","wisdom","wisdom","wit","witty","witty"],"id":11458,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["life-and-living","reading-books","time","writing-inspiration"],"id":12392,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.","author":"Spencer Gordon","tags":["language","reading","reading-books","writing"],"id":15594,"author_id":"Spencer+Gordon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":408,"pages":41,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}