{"quotes":[{"text":"RACHEL MADDUX | ON STAYING HUNGRY Hunger is everything because it’s nothing - not yet - just raw promise, one lack that may eclipse others: talent, pedigree, luck. Like sharks, the hungry must always keep moving, hunting, killing, “killing it.” - Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living.","author":"Rachael Maddux","tags":["scratch","writing-life"],"id":45197,"author_id":"Rachael+Maddux"},{"text":"Morality never scratch the back of corruption.","author":"Kishore Bansal","tags":["corruption","moralit","scratch"],"id":66086,"author_id":"Kishore+Bansal"},{"text":"Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acronym","across","acrostics","bitch","edit","editing","editing-humor","itch","itch-the-book","poems","poetry","scratch","scratching","ticking","tics","write","writer","writers-and-writing","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing-books","writing-craft"],"id":70346,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black.","author":"John Fowles","tags":["admit","beyond","black","dark","darkness","distracted","distraction","fused","good","goodness","grab","grabbing","happiness","happy","lights","people","scratch","see","spider","surface","web"],"id":108753,"author_id":"John+Fowles"},{"text":"If your passion does not keep you sleepless, you can't be a good beginner. When passion itches, a great hand scratches... Wake up, it's your time to rise above idleness!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["act","action","actions","arise","arise-and-shine","begin","begin-now","beginner","do-something","enthusiasm","food-for-thought","idleness","israelmore-ayivor","itches","passion","passionate","rise","scratch","sleep","sleepless","start-now","take-actions","time","wake-up"],"id":125454,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-different","best","breakthrough","excel","excellent","exceptional","extra","extra-mile","food-for-thought","go","make-a-difference","move-on","scratch","stand","standout-stand-out","you-can-do-it"],"id":141998,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Stretched and skewedTap of the 8-ball and the cueScratches fall throughThey are the scars of you.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["8-ball","billiards","clever","cue-ball","hurt","lies","love","lyrics","metaphor","pain","poetry","pool","rejection","rhyming","scars","scratch","skewed","songwriting","sports","stretched","suffering"],"id":178376,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.","author":"George Gordon Byron","tags":["mind","scratch","timidity","wound"],"id":222225,"author_id":"George+Gordon+Byron"},{"text":"God created everyone to love and to be loved; If you will not take care of people, just leave them as they came...DON'T SCRATCH THEM with your actions.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["beloved","care","careful","careless","create","creations","creator","demean","destroy","do-my-prophets-no-harm","everybody","everyone","food-for-though","god","harm","i-love-you","insult","israelmore-ayivor","keep-good-care","leave","let-alone","love","love-you","loved","lovely","loving","pastor","people-love-me","preaching","rescue-the-perishing","scratch","take-care","touch-not-my-annointed-ones"],"id":248017,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.","author":"Lisa Kleypas","tags":["ink","pain","paper","scratch","survive"],"id":255979,"author_id":"Lisa+Kleypas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}