{"quotes":[{"text":"Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?","author":"Stephen Fry","tags":["creative-process","literary-technique","writing-process"],"id":91,"author_id":"Stephen+Fry"},{"text":"I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire it, and I think to myself, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'l have a book. It is such a pleasurable moment that I type many more title pages than I could ever use.","author":"Betsy Byars","tags":["inspiration","title-page","writing","writing-process"],"id":1680,"author_id":"Betsy+Byars"},{"text":"Young people ask why I became a writer, as if it were something I decided. I didn't decide; it grew on me like ivy.","author":"M.V. Carey","tags":["writers-on-writing","writing","writing-process"],"id":1763,"author_id":"M.V.+Carey"},{"text":"Music is a writer's heartbeat.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["awareness","create","creativity","energy","energy-healing","heartbeat","holistic","inspiration","listen-to-music","music","peace","screenwriters","songs","spirituality","truth","women-in-film","women-wisdom","write","writers","writers","writing","writing-process"],"id":2833,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["carla-h-krueger","creative-writing","fiction","free","goals","ideas","spirit","writing-life","writing-process","writing"],"id":3614,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["creative-process","dreamer","dreamy","poetry","poetry-love","poetry","poets","poets-and-poetry","real-world","soul","writers","writing-life","writing-process"],"id":3644,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As for drevalyankas, pikshas, bolugs and other totally original creatures, they appeared there somehow by themselves in the course of events, and then just began 'to get under the feet of the main heroes'...","author":"Irina Lopatina","tags":["character-development","fantasy","writing-process"],"id":3706,"author_id":"Irina+Lopatina"},{"text":"On some days, writing is wonderful. On the days when it is wonderful, it feels like you are the God of a universe that the rest of the world is not yet privy to. And then on some days, it is not wonderful; those days when nothing is coming and the cursor seems to be openly mocking you, blinking out ‘YOU SUCK AT WRITING AND YOU’RE UGLY AS BALLS’ in Morse code.","author":"Leigh Whannell","tags":["humor","writing","writing-process"],"id":3898,"author_id":"Leigh+Whannell"},{"text":"Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.","author":"Gudjon Bergmann","tags":["writing","writing-a-book","writing-advice","writing-process"],"id":4555,"author_id":"Gudjon+Bergmann"},{"text":"Life is sacred story.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["life","motivated","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","sacred","storytelling","writers","writing-life","writing-process"],"id":4560,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":772,"pages":78,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}