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

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“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. ”

― Jennifer Weiner

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“Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”

― Toni Morrison

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“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”

― Raymond Chandler

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“Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”

― J.K. Rowling

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“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”

― Alan Dean Foster

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“A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.”

― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”

― Terry Pratchett

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“To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive.”
—William Zinsser, WD

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“Writers will happen in the best of families.”

― Rita Mae Brown

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“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”

― Tim O'Brien

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“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.”

― Jennifer Weiner

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“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”

― Salman Rushdie

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"Buku yang kau tulis adalah semacam jejak yang terus menyala di dunia, dan bisa menjadi cahaya akhiratmu.”

― Helvy Tiana Rosa

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“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”

― Annie Dillard

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“ …when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok…”

― Spider Robinson

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.”

― Elvis Costello

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“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.”

― Charles Bukowski

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“Writers write while dreamers procastinate. ”

― Besa Kosova

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“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
—Philip Roth

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