{"author":"H. P. Lovecraft","author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["fear","creation","emotion "],"id":31710,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["writing","young","accuracy "],"id":49983,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["experience","genuine","place "],"id":56225,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["change","process","story "],"id":123498,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["ocean","men","secret "],"id":126166,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["help","view","be true "],"id":144169,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["truth","conformity "],"id":163834,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["man","training","constitution "],"id":164123,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["life","everyday life "],"id":167183,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","tags":["time","fear","strong "],"id":173249,"author_id":"H.+P.+Lovecraft"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}