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

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

arinn

arinn

"Banyak cara  untuk meluaskan dunia kanak-kanak. Cinta BUKU adalah yang terbaik daripada segalanya.
Apabila membaca, kita mulai tahu segala-galanya."

arinn

".... Buku lama adalah buku baharu bagi mereka yang belum membacanya....."

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Francis Bacon

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“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R.R. Martin

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

― Toni Morrison

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“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

― J.K. Rowling

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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

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      “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”  
  ―    James     Baldwin

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      “Reader's Bill of Rights

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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      “We live for books.”  
  ―    Umberto Eco

vanillaninja

vanillaninja replied at 8-2-2017 04:14 AM
Some inspirational quotes from books

1) Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by ...

Eh sorry mod tak perasan.

Some of memorable quotes about reading, writing and literature:

1) “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye


2) “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

3) “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

4) “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

5) “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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      “Books may well be the only true magic.”  
  ―    Alice Hoffman

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“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King