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

bianglala

"Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe."

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

bianglala

"But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books."

- Lemony Snicket

seribulan

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.” — Neil Gaiman

missselfridge

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway

missselfridge

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges." - Ernest Hemingway

missselfridge

"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say." - Flannery O'Connor

missselfridge

"A writer never have a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing." - Eugene Ionesco

missselfridge

"A villain is just a victim whose story hasn't been told." - Chris Colfer

seribulan

      “Menulis itu kegiatan menanam berlian di hati pembaca.”  
  ―    Helvy Tiana Rosa

seribulan

      “Menulis buku itu sama saja omong kosong kalau tujuannya agar terkenal, atau agar sombong karena sudah menulis buku, sama saja dengan omong kosong kalau yang dicari hanyalah uang.
Menulis kemudian mempublikasikannya secara massal, harus dengan sebuah idealisme. Bahwa tulisan itu membawa banyak perubahan bagi hidup orang lain. Harus ada kebaikan di dalamnya. Bukan hanya sekedar menjual kertas, tinta, dan lem, kemudian merasa bangga hanya karenanya.”  
  ―    Nadia Aghnia Fadhillah

seribulan

      “Aku suka menyadari betapa kerasnya buku bertahan, tidak pernah mau takluk begitu saja padaku; aku jadi terpedaya, capai, tetapi aku amat menikmati ambiguitas posisiku: "mengerti tetapi tidak mengerti".”  
  ―    Jean-Paul Sartre

missselfridge

"Writing, at its best, is a bridge constructed across the abyss of human loneliness." - David Foster Wallace

missselfridge

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. " - Oscar Wilde

missselfridge

"I am part of everything that I have read." - Theodore Roosevelt

seribulan

      “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

seribulan

      “menulis adalah pertengakaran rasa dan pikiran di ujung pena”  
  ―    Wawan Kurn

seribulan

“Menulis selain perkara merangakai kata, juga membantu manusia menemukan jatindirinya. Melalui menulis pula, aku disadarkan untuk menyikapinkeadaan dengan bijak, tanpa harus repot repot berdiri di depan gedung dewan, membawa spanduk, dan berteriak teriak kepanasan”  
  ―    Hilal Ahmad

lesprincesse

You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

seribulan

      “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

pelicano

"Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”

– Jean Luc Godard, film director, screen writer, film critic