{"quotes":[{"text":"Lacking natural equilibrium, I used writing as an illustrative means to center myself in a world filled with haziness and uncertainty. My self-drafted obituary will not bemoan death but shall celebrate life by giving heartfelt thanks for all the people that brightened actuality with their kindness, friendship, noble acts of charity, and expressions of universal goodwill. It was a privilege to exist in this wrinkle of time with many people devoted to burnishing the sharpen edges of life. The heavens blessed me with many years to discover why it is beautiful to live and die in a world where the hills and wind, the rivers and seas, stars and moon, and revealing sunlight shall persevere.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["beautiful-life","beauty-of-life","beauty-of-nature","beauty-of-the-world","death","death-and-dying","essay-writing","essayist","memories","memories","memory","writers","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing-philosophy"],"id":281,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!","author":"Storm Princeholm","tags":["writing","writing-from-the-heart","writing-life","writing-philosophy"],"id":1230,"author_id":"Storm+Princeholm"},{"text":"I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.","author":"Paul W. Feenstra","tags":["-on-writing","-paul-w-feenstra","writing-books","writing-inspirationg","writing-philosophy","writing"],"id":4572,"author_id":"Paul+W.+Feenstra"},{"text":"If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","fiction","fiction","god","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","miracles","paper","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-fiction","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":6323,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I write for the same reason. Creating people and their life's stories through my writing is as close to magic as I'll ever get again.","author":"Dori Ann Dupré","tags":["writing","writing-books","writing-books","writing-books","writing-philosophy","writing"],"id":6840,"author_id":"Dori+Ann+Dupr%C3%A9"},{"text":"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.","author":"Jonathan Franzen","tags":["inspirational","writing-inspiration","writing-philosophy"],"id":7158,"author_id":"Jonathan+Franzen"},{"text":"Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["essayist","essays","memoir","memoir-writing","memoirs","personal-story","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-realization","stories","stories-from-the-heart","stories-of-people","story-of-a-soul","story-of-life","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","story-telling","storytellers","storytelling","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":9483,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.","author":"Sergio Troncoso","tags":["creative-writing","creativity","sergio-troncoso","writers-life","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":10903,"author_id":"Sergio+Troncoso"},{"text":"Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.","author":"Julie Rodelli","tags":["writing","writing-craft","writing-philosophy"],"id":12121,"author_id":"Julie+Rodelli"},{"text":"Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.","author":"Gloria D. Gonsalves","tags":["writers","writers-life","writers-on-writing","writers-world","writing","writing-life","writing-philosophy"],"id":17079,"author_id":"Gloria+D.+Gonsalves"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":178,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}