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+[
+  {
+    "quote": "Easy reading is damn hard writing.",
+    "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The first draft of anything is shit.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one.",
+    "author": "Blaise Pascal"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.",
+    "author": "Mark Twain"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The road to hell is paved with adverbs.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.",
+    "author": "Henry David Thoreau"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Vigorous writing is concise.",
+    "author": "William Strunk Jr."
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.",
+    "author": "Elmore Leonard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Strip every sentence to its cleanest components.",
+    "author": "William Zinsser"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.",
+    "author": "William Zinsser"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.",
+    "author": "Thomas Jefferson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Omit needless words.",
+    "author": "William Strunk Jr."
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.",
+    "author": "Jack Kerouac"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.",
+    "author": "Mark Twain"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A word after a word after a word is power.",
+    "author": "Margaret Atwood"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.",
+    "author": "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is easy. All you do is cross out the wrong words.",
+    "author": "Mark Twain"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Words are a lens to focus one's mind.",
+    "author": "Ayn Rand"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.",
+    "author": "Thomas Mann"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The pen is the tongue of the mind.",
+    "author": "Miguel de Cervantes"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.",
+    "author": "Rudyard Kipling"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word.",
+    "author": "Emily Dickinson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.",
+    "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.",
+    "author": "Louis L'Amour"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.",
+    "author": "Jodi Picoult"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.",
+    "author": "Terry Pratchett"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.",
+    "author": "Octavia E. Butler"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I only write when I'm inspired, so I see to it that I'm inspired every morning at nine o'clock.",
+    "author": "Peter De Vries"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.",
+    "author": "Robert Frost"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.",
+    "author": "Ray Bradbury"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.",
+    "author": "Toni Morrison"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.",
+    "author": "Maya Angelou"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I write to discover what I know.",
+    "author": "Flannery O'Connor"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.",
+    "author": "Anais Nin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.",
+    "author": "Joan Didion"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.",
+    "author": "Richard Bach"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.",
+    "author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.",
+    "author": "Mark Twain"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.",
+    "author": "Philip Jose Farmer"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.",
+    "author": "Anne Frank"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You fail only if you stop writing.",
+    "author": "Ray Bradbury"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.",
+    "author": "Robert Benchley"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.",
+    "author": "E.B. White"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time.'",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.",
+    "author": "Anne Lamott"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Write hard and clear about what hurts.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.",
+    "author": "Brandon Sanderson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.",
+    "author": "William Zinsser"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness.",
+    "author": "Graham Greene"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.",
+    "author": "Anais Nin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is its own reward.",
+    "author": "Henry Miller"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.",
+    "author": "Samuel Johnson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Read, read, read. Read everything.",
+    "author": "William Faulkner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page.",
+    "author": "Annie Proulx"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.",
+    "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.",
+    "author": "Orson Scott Card"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.",
+    "author": "Shannon Hale"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.",
+    "author": "Daniel Wallace"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.",
+    "author": "Colette"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.",
+    "author": "E.B. White"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.",
+    "author": "E.L. Doctorow"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us.",
+    "author": "William Faulkner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Forget your generalized audience. Sometimes it helps to pick out one person and write to that one.",
+    "author": "John Steinbeck"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The author, in his work, must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.",
+    "author": "Gustave Flaubert"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life.",
+    "author": "Anne Lamott"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.",
+    "author": "Anton Chekhov"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.",
+    "author": "Terry Pratchett"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.",
+    "author": "Jules Renard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.",
+    "author": "Joyce Carol Oates"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.",
+    "author": "Harper Lee"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.",
+    "author": "Virginia Woolf"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.",
+    "author": "David McCullough"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.",
+    "author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.",
+    "author": "Madeleine L'Engle"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.",
+    "author": "Barbara Kingsolver"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.",
+    "author": "Herman Melville"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.",
+    "author": "Benjamin Franklin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.",
+    "author": "Edgar Rice Burroughs"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.",
+    "author": "William H. Gass"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything.",
+    "author": "Aldous Huxley"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.",
+    "author": "Franz Kafka"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.",
+    "author": "Philip Pullman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.",
+    "author": "Oscar Wilde"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.",
+    "author": "Saul Bellow"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.",
+    "author": "William Wordsworth"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.",
+    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.",
+    "author": "Gustave Flaubert"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.",
+    "author": "Tom Stoppard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The secret of it all is to write without waiting for a fit time or place.",
+    "author": "Walt Whitman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "No one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.",
+    "author": "Charles de Lint"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Successful writing is one part inspiration and two parts sheer stubbornness.",
+    "author": "Gillian Flynn"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "As a writer, you should not judge. You should understand.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it.",
+    "author": "Beverly Cleary"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.",
+    "author": "Toni Morrison"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.",
+    "author": "Margaret Atwood"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be stilled.",
+    "author": "Sylvia Plath"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.",
+    "author": "Raymond Carver"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.",
+    "author": "Ray Bradbury"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.",
+    "author": "P.D. James"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.",
+    "author": "Lisa See"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you fall in love with the vision and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.",
+    "author": "Nora DeLoach"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff clears the way for good.",
+    "author": "Jennifer Egan"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.",
+    "author": "Ezra Pound"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.",
+    "author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.",
+    "author": "William Faulkner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.",
+    "author": "Samuel Johnson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "People should be interested in books, not their authors.",
+    "author": "Agatha Christie"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.",
+    "author": "George Eliot"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.",
+    "author": "Hippocrates"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.",
+    "author": "George Orwell"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.",
+    "author": "William Butler Yeats"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Use the smallest word that does the job.",
+    "author": "E.B. White"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.",
+    "author": "Robert Heinlein"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.",
+    "author": "Eudora Welty"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.",
+    "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.",
+    "author": "William Zinsser"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is not simply a matter of expressing pre-existing thoughts clearly. It's the process through which ideas are produced and refined.",
+    "author": "Steven Mintz"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it.",
+    "author": "Joan Didion"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I always was a writer. Perhaps not published, but always a writer.",
+    "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.",
+    "author": "Vladimir Nabokov"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: tell the damned story.",
+    "author": "Tom Clancy"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.",
+    "author": "Virginia Woolf"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.",
+    "author": "Sidney Sheldon"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.",
+    "author": "Henry David Thoreau"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.",
+    "author": "Winston Churchill"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.",
+    "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.",
+    "author": "Neil Gaiman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.",
+    "author": "Nora Roberts"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.",
+    "author": "E.L. Doctorow"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.",
+    "author": "Anne Lamott"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The desire to write grows with writing.",
+    "author": "Erasmus"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.",
+    "author": "Frank Herbert"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.",
+    "author": "James Michener"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Write what should not be forgotten.",
+    "author": "Isabel Allende"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A writer is a world trapped in a person.",
+    "author": "Victor Hugo"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.",
+    "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every writer I know has trouble writing.",
+    "author": "Joseph Heller"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The pen is mightier than the sword.",
+    "author": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.",
+    "author": "Ray Bradbury"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.",
+    "author": "H.G. Wells"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I try to leave out the parts that people skip.",
+    "author": "Elmore Leonard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.",
+    "author": "Gustave Flaubert"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it at all.",
+    "author": "Julia Cameron"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.",
+    "author": "Ray Bradbury"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences.",
+    "author": "William Strunk Jr."
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.",
+    "author": "Gustave Flaubert"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is nothing more powerful than a story well told.",
+    "author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.",
+    "author": "John Steinbeck"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.",
+    "author": "Logan Pearsall Smith"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.",
+    "author": "Boris Pasternak"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.",
+    "author": "Steve Martin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Tears are words that need to be written.",
+    "author": "Paulo Coelho"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I am a galley slave to pen and ink.",
+    "author": "Honore de Balzac"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "In writing, you must kill all your darlings.",
+    "author": "William Faulkner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.",
+    "author": "Oscar Wilde"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The only writer to whom you should compare yourself is the writer you were yesterday.",
+    "author": "David Schlosser"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself.",
+    "author": "Ray Bradbury"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every man's memory is his private literature.",
+    "author": "Aldous Huxley"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job. It's always you versus a blank sheet of paper, and quite often the blank sheet wins.",
+    "author": "Neil Gaiman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.",
+    "author": "P.G. Wodehouse"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live.",
+    "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.",
+    "author": "Cyril Connolly"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I can't write five words but that I change seven.",
+    "author": "Dorothy Parker"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Always be a poet, even in prose.",
+    "author": "Charles Baudelaire"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.",
+    "author": "Franz Kafka"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.",
+    "author": "Hart Crane"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is both mask and unveiling.",
+    "author": "E.B. White"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I do not like to write -- I like to have written.",
+    "author": "Gloria Steinem"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The best style is the style you don't notice.",
+    "author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.",
+    "author": "David Sedaris"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.",
+    "author": "W.H. Auden"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.",
+    "author": "Plato"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.",
+    "author": "Robert Frost"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Prose is words in their best order; poetry is the best words in the best order.",
+    "author": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Go in fear of abstractions.",
+    "author": "Ezra Pound"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.",
+    "author": "Don Marquis"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is only one plot -- things are not what they seem.",
+    "author": "Jim Thompson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.",
+    "author": "Richard Price"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.",
+    "author": "Annie Dillard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.",
+    "author": "Russell Lynes"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.",
+    "author": "Amy Joy"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.",
+    "author": "Mignon McLaughlin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.",
+    "author": "Tom Bissell"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.",
+    "author": "Jules Renard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.",
+    "author": "Ayn Rand"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.",
+    "author": "James Dickey"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.",
+    "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.",
+    "author": "Bernard Malamud"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "My aim in constructing sentences is to make the sentence utterly easy to understand, writing what I call transparent prose.",
+    "author": "Ken Follett"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself.",
+    "author": "Alfred Kazin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.",
+    "author": "Heather Sellers"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work.",
+    "author": "Russell Baker"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.",
+    "author": "Carl Sandburg"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.",
+    "author": "Robert Frost"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.",
+    "author": "Emily Dickinson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head.",
+    "author": "Finding Forrester"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.",
+    "author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.",
+    "author": "A. Bronson Alcott"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.",
+    "author": "Raymond Chandler"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I try to pull the reader into the story and make him forget, as much as possible, that he's reading a story.",
+    "author": "Elmore Leonard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.",
+    "author": "Edwin Schlossberg"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader -- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.",
+    "author": "E.L. Doctorow"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is the painting of the voice.",
+    "author": "Voltaire"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.",
+    "author": "Virginia Woolf"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else.",
+    "author": "Eudora Welty"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We do not write as we want but as we can.",
+    "author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.",
+    "author": "Fernando Pessoa"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A writer's job is to turn his worst moments into money.",
+    "author": "J.P. Donleavy"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is creative reading as well as creative writing.",
+    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.",
+    "author": "Beatrix Potter"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.",
+    "author": "David Hare"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.",
+    "author": "Robert Frost"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.",
+    "author": "Henry David Thoreau"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Half my life is an act of revision.",
+    "author": "John Irving"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.",
+    "author": "John Steinbeck"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone.",
+    "author": "J.D. Salinger"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I am a man, and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.",
+    "author": "D.H. Lawrence"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.",
+    "author": "John Green"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.",
+    "author": "Philip Pullman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.",
+    "author": "Ray Bradbury"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.",
+    "author": "Samuel Johnson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want.",
+    "author": "Neil Simon"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.",
+    "author": "Tom Clancy"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.",
+    "author": "Kurt Vonnegut"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.",
+    "author": "Walt Whitman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created.",
+    "author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I love words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.",
+    "author": "Anne Rice"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Books aren't written -- they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.",
+    "author": "Michael Crichton"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.",
+    "author": "Joseph Conrad"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Style means the right word. The rest matters little.",
+    "author": "Jules Renard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.",
+    "author": "Catherine Drinker Bowen"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Be obscure clearly.",
+    "author": "E.B. White"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you have other things in your life -- family, friends, good productive day work -- these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.",
+    "author": "David Brin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.",
+    "author": "Graham Greene"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it.",
+    "author": "R.L. Stine"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.",
+    "author": "Carl Sandburg"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight.",
+    "author": "Richard Wright"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.",
+    "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.",
+    "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I hate writing, I love having written.",
+    "author": "Dorothy Parker"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You can make anything by writing.",
+    "author": "C.S. Lewis"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.",
+    "author": "Blaise Pascal"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If it can be cut out, then cut it out. Everything non-essential that you can eliminate strengthens what's left.",
+    "author": "Isaac Babel"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.",
+    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.",
+    "author": "Martin Luther"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.",
+    "author": "E.B. White"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.",
+    "author": "Sylvia Plath"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry.",
+    "author": "Jane Yolen"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.",
+    "author": "Albert Camus"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads.",
+    "author": "Dr. Seuss"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.",
+    "author": "Ernest Gaines"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.",
+    "author": "Anais Nin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.",
+    "author": "Willa Cather"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.",
+    "author": "Isaac Asimov"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is no greater power on this earth than story.",
+    "author": "Libba Bray"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else, perhaps they're made of life.",
+    "author": "Philip Pullman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.",
+    "author": "Anne McCaffrey"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.",
+    "author": "Joseph Joubert"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours reading one of his books.",
+    "author": "Brandon Sanderson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.",
+    "author": "Lev Grossman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.",
+    "author": "Lillian Hellman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can.",
+    "author": "E.B. White"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Nothing in my life is worth writing about. I know that story. I write books to answer questions.",
+    "author": "Toni Morrison"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Finish your first draft and then we'll talk.",
+    "author": "Michael Korda"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.",
+    "author": "Cheryl Strayed"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.",
+    "author": "Wally Lamb"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income.",
+    "author": "Ellen Gilchrist"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.",
+    "author": "E.L. Doctorow"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "It is perfectly okay to write garbage -- as long as you edit brilliantly.",
+    "author": "C.J. Cherryh"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.",
+    "author": "Gustave Flaubert"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.",
+    "author": "Roald Dahl"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions.",
+    "author": "George Orwell"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The writer's only responsibility is to his art.",
+    "author": "William Faulkner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style.",
+    "author": "Dorothy Parker"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.",
+    "author": "Cecil Day-Lewis"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle.",
+    "author": "John Cheever"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.",
+    "author": "Robert Frost"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.",
+    "author": "G.K. Chesterton"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.",
+    "author": "Kurt Vonnegut"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure.",
+    "author": "Willa Cather"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.",
+    "author": "Van Wyck Brooks"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.",
+    "author": "Thomas Wolfe"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.",
+    "author": "Enrique Jardiel Poncela"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.",
+    "author": "W. Somerset Maugham"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.",
+    "author": "Rod Serling"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I have been correcting the proofs of my poems. In the morning, after hard work, I took a comma out of one sentence. In the afternoon, I put it back again.",
+    "author": "Oscar Wilde"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.",
+    "author": "George Orwell"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood -- you will either write or you will not -- and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.",
+    "author": "Jim Tully"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work.",
+    "author": "Harlan Ellison"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.",
+    "author": "Burton Rascoe"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.",
+    "author": "Red Smith"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asjlkdh fkal;jd.",
+    "author": "Lemony Snicket"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.",
+    "author": "Robert Cormier"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.",
+    "author": "Baltasar Gracian"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Great writing is not about the number of words, but about the depth of the ideas.",
+    "author": "Franz Kafka"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.",
+    "author": "Stendhal"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.",
+    "author": "Leo Rosten"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.",
+    "author": "Groucho Marx"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "In six pages I can't even say hello.",
+    "author": "James Michener"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Get black on white.",
+    "author": "Guy de Maupassant"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.",
+    "author": "Colette"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I can't understand how a person can write without wishing to mend the world.",
+    "author": "Leo Tolstoy"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.",
+    "author": "Cassandra Clare"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.",
+    "author": "Doris Lessing"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money is in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.",
+    "author": "Larry Niven"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I think the single most important thing for any writer is to read voraciously.",
+    "author": "Karen Thompson Walker"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.",
+    "author": "Raymond Chandler"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.",
+    "author": "E.L. Doctorow"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse.",
+    "author": "William S. Burroughs"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.",
+    "author": "Ann Patchett"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good.",
+    "author": "Chet Atkins"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.",
+    "author": "Annie Dillard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I want the reader to feel something is astonishing -- not the what happens but the way everything happens.",
+    "author": "Alice Munro"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You can fix anything but a blank page.",
+    "author": "Nora Roberts"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You sit down and write every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, pinning her down, and begging her to stay for a while.",
+    "author": "Lili St. Crow"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.",
+    "author": "Jack Kerouac"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The role of the writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.",
+    "author": "Anais Nin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.",
+    "author": "Virginia Woolf"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "In plain English: what gets you to the desk and keeps you there and how does the story take shape? I think it's different for all writers.",
+    "author": "Hilary Mantel"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.",
+    "author": "Edgar Rice Burroughs"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A good writer is basically a storyteller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.",
+    "author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.",
+    "author": "Leo Tolstoy"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.",
+    "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can.",
+    "author": "Saul Bellow"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out THE thing a story is about you are very probably wrong.",
+    "author": "Neil Gaiman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.",
+    "author": "Gustave Flaubert"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.",
+    "author": "William Faulkner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.",
+    "author": "Neil Gaiman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Good writing is clear thinking made visible.",
+    "author": "Bill Wheeler"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.",
+    "author": "Francoise Sagan"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek phrases look a tremendous lot better.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I am by calling a dealer in words, and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.",
+    "author": "Rudyard Kipling"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.",
+    "author": "A.J. Liebling"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential.",
+    "author": "Katerina Stoykova Klemer"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.",
+    "author": "Marianne Williamson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If the stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed.",
+    "author": "Barry Lopez"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Tis the good reader that makes the good book.",
+    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I do a lot of revising. Novels are not written, they are rewritten. This is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after your first draft.",
+    "author": "Michael Crichton"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.",
+    "author": "Emily Dickinson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Think before you speak. Read before you think.",
+    "author": "Fran Lebowitz"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.",
+    "author": "Junot Diaz"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, your story will get pneumonia.",
+    "author": "Kurt Vonnegut"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.",
+    "author": "Oscar Wilde"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.",
+    "author": "William Styron"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.",
+    "author": "Samuel Johnson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides.",
+    "author": "C.S. Lewis"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a means of recording.",
+    "author": "Billy Collins"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.",
+    "author": "Blaise Pascal"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.",
+    "author": "Robert Graves"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.",
+    "author": "Mark Twain"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "What lasts is what is written. We look to writing as the test of truth.",
+    "author": "Joan Didion"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing is applied daydreaming.",
+    "author": "Stephen King"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "To write means more than putting pretty words on a page; the writer must also intensify the reader's experience of life.",
+    "author": "Lee Child"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The beautiful thing about writing is that you can do it anywhere. All you need is your mind.",
+    "author": "Walter Mosley"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The writer's real enemy is not a lack of talent but a surplus of sloppiness.",
+    "author": "William Zinsser"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.",
+    "author": "Oscar Wilde"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.",
+    "author": "Robert Byrne"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.",
+    "author": "George Orwell"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "All words are pegs to hang ideas on.",
+    "author": "Henry Ward Beecher"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "To survive, you must tell stories.",
+    "author": "Umberto Eco"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Learn as much by writing as by reading.",
+    "author": "Lord Acton"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.",
+    "author": "Truman Capote"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.",
+    "author": "Henry David Thoreau"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We live and breathe words.",
+    "author": "Cassandra Clare"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.",
+    "author": "Flannery O'Connor"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "One should use common words to say uncommon things.",
+    "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.",
+    "author": "Iain M. Banks"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.",
+    "author": "Charles de Montesquieu"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.",
+    "author": "Agatha Christie"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Poetry is what gets lost in translation.",
+    "author": "Robert Frost"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A great deal of writing is not unlike bricklaying. The trowel spreads the mortar. The bricks are set on top of one another, row upon row.",
+    "author": "John McPhee"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.",
+    "author": "Ernest Hemingway"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Let's have some new cliches.",
+    "author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writing teaches writing.",
+    "author": "Eudora Welty"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.",
+    "author": "Jean-Luc Godard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.",
+    "author": "Doris Lessing"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.",
+    "author": "Arthur Plotnik"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.",
+    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Write about what makes you different.",
+    "author": "Sandra Cisneros"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A writer needs three things: experience, observation, and imagination -- any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.",
+    "author": "William Faulkner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Literature is news that stays news.",
+    "author": "Ezra Pound"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age.",
+    "author": "Robertson Davies"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Writers live twice.",
+    "author": "Natalie Goldberg"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I write for the same reason I breathe -- because if I didn't, I would die.",
+    "author": "Isaac Asimov"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.",
+    "author": "Mark Twain"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "No writer is ever satisfied with his work. The good ones learn to live with that dissatisfaction.",
+    "author": "Doris Betts"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "All the best stories are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.",
+    "author": "Arthur Christopher Benson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.",
+    "author": "William Carlos Williams"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The writer's duty is to keep on writing.",
+    "author": "William Styron"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.",
+    "author": "Franz Kafka"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We tell ourselves stories in order to live.",
+    "author": "Joan Didion"
+  }
+]