...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

LelaRentaka7

“Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

LelaRentaka7

“The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. ”
― Bill Barich

LelaRentaka7

“The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.”
― Charles Slagle

LelaRentaka7

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

LelaRentaka7

“And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.”
― Rick Riordan

LelaRentaka7

“He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.”
― Grant Morrison

seribulan

seribulan

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

seribulan

nottie

a child who read will be adult who thinks.
unknown

nottie

i do believe something very magical can happen when u read a good book.
JK Rowling

nottie

Reading is a conversation.All books talk.But a good book listens as wellMark Haddon

bianglala

“Some writers are the kind of solo violinists who need complete silence to tune their instruments. Others want to hear every member of the orchestra—they’ll take a cue from a clarinet, from an oboe, even. I am one of those. My writing desk is covered in open novels. I read lines to swim in a certain sensibility, to strike a particular note, to encourage rigour when I’m too sentimental, to bring verbal ease when I’m syntactically uptight. I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka, as roughage. If your aesthetic has become so refined it is stopping you from placing a single black mark on white paper, stop worrying so much about what Nabokov would say; pick up Dostoyevsky, patron saint of substance over style.”

- Zadie Smith : Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

bianglala

"I’m never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing."

- Zadie Smith

bianglala

“When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.”

- Zadie Smith

bianglala

“Be completely fearless. [...]Write without constraints, or worrying about who you represent, or whether you should represent anyone, or who your audience is, or what you can or can't do with a female character, or a black character, or someone of restricted growth, or someone who's hugely fat. You must write total confidence that the fiction is its own justification.”

- Zadie Smith

bianglala

"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you."

- Zadie Smith

bianglala

“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”

- Zadie Smith

bianglala

“We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are [...] writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.”

- Zadie Smith

seribulan

I read like the flame reads the wood.
Alfred Dblin