{"quotes":[{"text":"Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["addictive","anonymous","book","book-a-holic","character","compulsion","cure","eyes","feylynn","holic","ink","jazz","jazz-feylynn","life","life-and-times","lost-of-time","pages","paper","read","reading","reading-books","reading-habit","squint","story","texture","thought-on-reading","time","times","word","written"],"id":1891,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["determination","direction","future","goals","hand","life","map","new-years","new-years-day","pen","road","write","written"],"id":14702,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I write these words to touch you,My love, In places my hands can only dream of.","author":"Jenim Dibie","tags":["dream","jenim-dibie","life","love","poetry","touch","words","write","writes","writing","written"],"id":19044,"author_id":"Jenim+Dibie"},{"text":"My fate is written by my God. It can never be wrong.","author":"Irfa Rahat","tags":["fate","god","written"],"id":23590,"author_id":"Irfa+Rahat"},{"text":"History should be written as philosophy.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["philosophy","should","written "],"id":26860,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["agonise","agonising","assume","bride","cadence","consume","creative-writing","creativity","dandelion","erase","fly","forgotten","groom","hands","heart","hips","ink","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","letters","lips","mark","marriage","months","novelist","page","paper","pen","pencil","penned","poems-on-writing","poet","poetess","poetry","quote","on-writing","rhyme","rotten","selfish","selfishness","silences","sodden","spaces","think","trodden","windy","word","words","write","writer","writing","written","wrote"],"id":52245,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren't built, the books that weren't written, the songs that weren't sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. There is no greater time than now to experience the full power of your potential. Make this the day you take the first step in the beautiful journey of bringing your dreams to life.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["books","dreams","experience","fear","goals","journey","life","potential","pyramids","songs","soul","wishes","written"],"id":55129,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["eyes","life-story","maybelle-bullock","odd-thomas","stare","written"],"id":60196,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["life","music","scale","song","written"],"id":74472,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.And mind can only see things that already written in heart.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["capture","eyes","heart","mind","see","written"],"id":80445,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}