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

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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
( R. L. Stine)

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      “Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.”  
  ―    Marisha Pessl

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“To embody a slice of life on stage/film/script/book is awe-inspiring; like peeking into a window to the soul or prima materia”  
  ―    Val Uchendu

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      “I don't trust people without books or questions.”  
  ―    Darnell Lamont Walker

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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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Alcuni libri devono essere gustati, altri masticati e digeriti, vale a dire che alcuni libri vanno letti solo in parte, altri senza curiosità, e altri per intero, con diligenza ed attenzione. Alcuni libri possono essere letti da altri e se ne possono fare degli estratti, ma ciò riguarderebbe solo argomenti di scarsa importanza o di libri secondari perché altrimenti i libri sintetizzati sono come l’acqua distillata, evanescente. La lettura completa la formazione di un uomo; il parlare lo fa abile, e la scrittura lo trasforma in un uomo preciso. E, pertanto, se un uomo scrive poco, deve avere una grande memoria, se parla poco ha bisogno di uno spirito arguto; se legge poco deve avere bisogno di molta astuzia in modo da far sembrare di sapere quello che non sa. Le storie fanno gli uomini saggi; i poeti arguti; la matematica sottile; la filosofia naturale profondi; la logica e la retorica abili nella discussione.”
Francis Bacon

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1) "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
- C.S. Lewis

2) "Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac."
- Oscar Wilde

3) "The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4) "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

5) "While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living."
- Cyril Connolly

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      “Tulisan itu rekam jejak. Sekali dipublikasikan, tak akan bisa kau tarik. Tulislah hal-hal berarti yg tak akan pernah kau sesali kemudian.”  
  ―    Helvy Tiana Rosa

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      “Pembaca adalah jantung buku saya.”  
  ―    Helvy Tiana Rosa

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      “Menulis itu sebenarnya sama dengan berbicara, hanya saja itu kau catat.”  
  ―    Helvy Tiana Rosa

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      “Saat menulis karya sastra, kita bisa menjelma siapapun yang kita inginkan, mencipta, membalik keadaan, membuatnya sesuka kita.”  
  ―    Helvy Tiana Rosa