{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.","author":"Vernor Vinge","tags":["disasters","history","writing-history"],"id":29290,"author_id":"Vernor+Vinge"},{"text":"Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make it happen over again, if you were writing about history or some recent event.","author":"A.A. Patawaran","tags":["storytelling","writing","writing-fiction","writing-history"],"id":109382,"author_id":"A.A.+Patawaran"},{"text":"History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["acceptance","acceptance-of-oneself-and-others","agents-of-change","birth-and-rebirth","black-history-month","change","change-advocates","contemporary-historians","current-history","destiny","fate","giving-birth","harlem-renaissance","hispanic-history","historian-aberjhani","historians","historicity","historicization","history","history-makers","intellectual-history","leadership","lessons-from-history","life-lessons","living-history","making-history","modern-historians","national-history-day","outstanding-people-in-history","philosophy-of-change","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","reluctant-advocates","will","willpower","wisdom","women-s-history-month","writing-history"],"id":275984,"author_id":"Aberjhani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}