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

bianglala · Post time 16-2-2017 01:24 PM

"Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian."

- Rumah Kaca (1988) ; PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER

seribulan · Post time 16-2-2017 02:56 PM

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

seribulan · Post time 16-2-2017 03:07 PM

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“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs

seribulan · Post time 16-2-2017 03:17 PM

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
― Roopleen

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seribulan · Post time 16-2-2017 05:53 PM

“Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they’re seeing now, what we’ll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.”
–Jack Kerouac, WD

seribulan · Post time 16-2-2017 05:54 PM

“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”
—Harper Lee, WD

seribulan · Post time 16-2-2017 05:55 PM

“Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it’s that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through—originality.”
—Jack Kerouac, WD

seribulan · Post time 16-2-2017 05:55 PM

“People say, ‘What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?’ I say, they don’t really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they’re gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”
—R.L. Stine, WD (this quote is from an interview with Stine that ran in our November/December 2011 issue)

seribulan · Post time 16-2-2017 05:56 PM

“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”
—Ray Bradbury, WD

“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
—Ray Bradbury, WD

“Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”
—Ray Bradbury, WD

“Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”
—Ray Bradbury, WD

“I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.”
—Ray Bradbury, WD