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

WhiskeyScotch

“The mythic voice rising from literature and art allows us to be humane. We are not humane because of political power, or education, or even religion. We are humane because we recognize the humanity of others. The writer and the artist appeal to that humanity. For that reason, literature and art are the bones of civilization.”

― Jack Cady

WhiskeyScotch

“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.”

― Salman Rushdie

WhiskeyScotch

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”

― Barbara W. Tuchman

seribulan

“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.”
—Allen Ginsberg, WD

seribulan

“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”
—Steve Almond, WD

seribulan

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
—George Orwell

WhiskeyScotch

“There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.”

― Pliny the Elder

WhiskeyScotch

“All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.”

― Marty Rubin

WhiskeyScotch

“Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.”

― Jamie L. Harding

WhiskeyScotch

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read”

― Oscar Wilde

WhiskeyScotch

“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WhiskeyScotch

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object."

-Henry David Thoreau

WhiskeyScotch

"Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorable interval between the spoken and the written language, the language heard and the language read.”

― Henry David Thoreau

WhiskeyScotch

“Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the example and help to foster this love of reading in our little ones.”

― Carmela Dutra

WhiskeyScotch

“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a TV program."

― Nick Hornby

WhiskeyScotch

“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”

― Jonathan Franzen

seribulan

“Writers live twice.”
—Natalie Goldberg

seribulan

“Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.”
—James Alexander Thom

seribulan

“You don’t actually have to write anything until you’ve thought it out. This is an enormous relief, and you can sit there searching for the point at which the story becomes a toboggan and starts to slide.”
—Marie de Nervaud, WD

seribulan

“Write while the heat is in you. … The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.”
—Henry David Thoreau