{"quotes":[{"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":"Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["alive","alive-and-kicking","among-the-living","animate","bore","boredom","boring","breathing","dead","death","die","existing","fear","functioning","humor","humour","in-the-land-of-the-living","live","living","murder","satire","self-murder","sentient","suicide","vital"],"id":217697,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["mind","programming","sentient"],"id":263450,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["art","arts","awareness","book","books","born","conscience","conscious","consciousness","creative","creative-arts","creative-process","creativity","diary","epic","fantasy","fiction","hear","inner-voice","journal","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","language","literary","literature","narration","narrative","narrator","non-fiction","novels","plot","poem","poet","publish","quote","about-writing","read","reader","sentient","speak","stories","story","storyteller","talk","think","thinking","thoughts","voice","words","write","writer","writing"],"id":475656,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}