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

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

    -Toni Morrison


I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

    Anna Quindlen


Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

    -Henry Ward Beecher


Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

    -Austin Phelps



Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

    -Charles W. Eliot

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Life is not perfect.. it never will be.

bianglala

"Menulis adalah salah satu cara terbaik menyebarkan pemahaman. Ketika kita bicara, hanya puluhan atau ratusan orang saja yang bisa mendengar. Kemudian hilang ditelan waktu. Tapi tulisan, buku-buku, bisa dibaca oleh lebih banyak lagi. Satu buku bisa dipinjam  dan dibaca berkali-kali oleh orang yang berbeda, apalagi ribuan buku. Dan jangan lupakan, buku bisa abadi."

- Rindu ; TERE LIYE

seribulan

“A single wire hanger on a nail by itself
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words.”
― Dara Weir

seribulan

“The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.”
― Peter Porter

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      “If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when I was asked to say something on this topic, I came up with the notion that for me the making of poems is both a commemoration (a moment captured) and an evocation (the archaeologist manqué side of me digging into something buried and bringing it to light). But I also said that I find the processes that bring poems into being mysterious, and I wouldn't really wish to know them; the thread that links the first unwilled impulse to the object I acknowledge as the completed poem is a tenuous one, easily broken. If I knew the answers to these riddles, I would write more poems, and better ones. "Simple Poem" is as close as I can get to a credo':

Simple Poem

I shall make it simple so you understand.
Making it simple will make it clear for me.
When you have read it, take me by the hand
As children do, loving simplicity.

This is the simple poem I have made.
Tell me you understand. But when you do
Don't ask me in return if I have said
All that I meant, or whether it is true.”  
  ―    Anthony Thwaite

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      “A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry.

David J Delaney ©”

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      “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”  
  ―    Benjamin Franklin

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      “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”  
  ―    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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      “The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”  
  ―    Leo Tolstoy

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      “I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.”  
  ―    Fernando Pessoa

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      “The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”  
  ―    Stephen King