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...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
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“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”
― Harper Lee |
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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris |
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Post time 21-12-2017 02:55 PM
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“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
—Joan Didion |
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“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini |
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“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”
― Tennessee Williams |
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“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis |
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“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
― Peter De Vries |
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“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters |
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“Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!”
― Lee Child |
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“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”
― George Orwell |
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“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
― William Faulkner |
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“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
― Robert A. Heinlein |
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“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
― Carlos Fuentes |
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"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. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
William Faulkner |
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1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to not defend your tastes
Daniel Pennac |
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"That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!"
Connie Willis, Passage |
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No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down |
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"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young."
Maya Angelou |
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Ilmu lebih utama daripada harta. Sebab ilmu warisan para nabi adapun harta adalah warisan Qorun, Firaun dan lainnya. Ilmu lebih utama dari harta karena ilmu itu menjaga kamu, kalau harta kamulah yang menjaganya.
(Ali bin Abi Thalib ) |
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Allah tidak mewajibkan orang-orang yang bodoh untuk menuntut ilmu kecuali terlebih dahulu mewajibkan orang-orang yang berilmu untuk mengajar.
( Ali bin Abi Thalib ) |
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Post time 20-12-2017 11:27 PM
