{"quotes":[{"text":"I left the bankbecause they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems.So I went to the store,but they didn’t acceptmy currency of words.So I boxed all my storiesand took them to charity.But they refused my donation and asked me to give blood instead.I opened the notebooks and made them look, 'What do you think I wrote these in?","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","bank","blood","books","boxed","charity","cheque","currency","deposit","donation","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","notebooks","poem","poems","poet","poetry","quote","store","stories","words","writer","writing","wrote"],"id":21851,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"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":"I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["books","create","creative","creative-writing","dance","in-love","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letters","literature","love","love-poems","love","lover","loving","met","muse","musings","novelist","novels","poems","poet","poetry","poetry","prose","serious","sing","solemn","somber","superfluous","verse","words","write","writer","writing","writing-poems","writing","wrote"],"id":99295,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I write to understand what I know.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["creative","creativity","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","know","knowledge","kojouri","poem","poet","quote","understand","understanding","wisdom","write","writer","writing","wrote"],"id":107223,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.","author":"William Zinsser","tags":["lonely","on-writing","on-writing-well","wrights","write","writer","writers","writing","written","wrote"],"id":137301,"author_id":"William+Zinsser"},{"text":"I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few.","author":"Andrew Kendall","tags":["belief","believe","discovery","journey","journey-of-life","key","life","life-lessons","succeed","success","the-dark-dictionary","wisdom","writing","wrote"],"id":137483,"author_id":"Andrew+Kendall"},{"text":"I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["boyfriend","break-up","girlfriend","heartbreak","heartbroken","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","longing","love","love-lost","love-poem","loved","lover","miss","missing","poem","poet","poetry","quote","relationships","short-poem","wonder","write","writing","written","wrote","yearning"],"id":143877,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.","author":"William Zinsser","tags":["on-writing","on-writing-well","the-writing-process","write","writer","writers","writers-life","writing","writing-advice","written","wrote"],"id":147902,"author_id":"William+Zinsser"},{"text":"I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.","author":"William Zinsser","tags":["on-writing","on-writing-well","write","writer","writers","writes","writing","writing-advice","written","wrote"],"id":183425,"author_id":"William+Zinsser"},{"text":"There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers--that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you.","author":"William Zinsser","tags":["motivation","on-writing","on-writing-well","write","writer","writers","writers-life","writes","writing","writing-advice","written","wrote"],"id":206740,"author_id":"William+Zinsser"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}