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

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Alam hanya mampu memperlihatkan tempat yang terbatas,tapi buku memberikan dunia yang tak terbatas.

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buku adalah jendela duniamu, sumber ilmu bagi siapapun yg membacanya, menambah wawasan

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

– Thomas Merton

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Robert Frost

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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
—Stephen King

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“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”
—Enid Bagnold

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“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

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“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

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“It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.”
—Jack Kerouac, WD

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“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.”
—Hunter S. Thompson

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“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
—George Orwell

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“I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.”
—Roald Dahl, WD

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“The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”
—Robert Benchley

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
—Ernest Hemingway

“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
—Virginia Woolf

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“Usahakan menulis setiap hari. Niscaya, kulit anda akan menjadi segar kembali akibat kandungan manfaat yang luar biasa”.
[Fatimah Mernissi]

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“Kita tidak harus menunggu datangnya inspirasi itu kita sendirilah yang menciptakannya”. [Stephen King]

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“Syarat untuk menjadi penulis ada tiga, iaitu: menulis, menulis, menulis”.
[Kuntowijoyo]

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“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.”  
  ―    Pramoedya Ananta Toer,          House of Glass   

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“Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun ?
Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin,
akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari.”  
  ―    Pramoedya Ananta Toer