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

bianglala

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

bianglala

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don’t believe in them in the traditional sense.

TABITHA KING

nurhumayra

*   Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.  Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.

*  Read !  You'll absorb it.  Then write.

-  William Faulkner

nurhumayra

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham

nurhumayra

*  A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in  a book, you may find encouragement and comfort

*  A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered.

*  Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

- E.B White

seribulan

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

Awan_Salji

"Saya ingin melihat (tentunya juga mencipta) sastera yang berguna, yang menghikmahkan. Bagaimana mengenal ini? Selalu-selalulah MENELITI karya seni dan pendapat SENIMAN TERKENAL, DIHORMATI dan TERUJI. Kerana tanpa menghampiri dunia Shakespeare, Dosteyevsky, Hemingway, Camus, Iqbal, Kawabata, Ananta Toer dan Shahnon Ahmad, dasar seni dan cita seni seseorang terbiar dangkal. Dia mungkin tahu tentang kehidupan, tetapi tersingkir dari hikmah kehidupan itu. Dalam karya sastera pujangga besar biasanya tersisip hikmah begini. Maknanya, dengan menghayati KARYA BERMUTU, seseorang turut mewarisi suatu pengalaman, satu sikap hidup, sejambang keindahan." - SN A. Samad Said

seribulan

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King

Awan_Salji

Catatan Latiff Mohidin

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eimila

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need - Cicero

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Get your facts first then you may distort them as you please. (Tweet Quote)
~Mark Twain

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    The first draft of anything is shit. (Tweet Quote)

    ~Ernest Hemingway

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    Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. (Tweet Quote)

    ~Les Brown

Awan_Salji

"Sebagai seorang penulis, saya menyedari bahawa 'alat' yang ada pada saya untuk menyampaikan karya kepada pembaca hanyalah bahasa."

- SN Anwar Ridhwan

Awan_Salji

"Saya sangat bimbang apabila melihat masyarakat kita yang tidak ada tradisi membaca, yang tidak membaca, sama ada buku lama atau baru, boleh berasa tenang dan gembira, sedangkan orang lain yang jauh lebih maju daripada kita, yang tidak ada masalah tradisi membaca seperti di Amerika, Perancis, Jerman dan negara-negara lain kini mula mempersoalkan rakyat mereka kerana tidak mahu membaca buku-buku yang penting dan utama dan mengikat diri mereka dengan sejarah, dalam usaha untuk membebaskan diri daripada tekanan dan kepalsuan hidup ini." - Anwar Ibrahim

seribulan

'I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.', Maya Angelou

seribulan

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. —Rene Descartes

bianglala

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don’t even think about being a writer.

JEAN M. AUEL

bianglala

There’s always time to read. Don’t trust a writer who doesn’t read. It’s like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn’t eat.

LAURA LIPPMAN