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

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You cannot open a book without learning something.

~ Confucius

pelicano

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

“I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.”
—Roald Dahl,  

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
—Ernest Hemingway

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
—Samuel Johnson

“Style is to forget all styles.”
—Jules Renard

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
—Elmore Leonard

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"Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss."—Nora Ephron

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"A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness."—Susan Sontag

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

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A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

–Neil Gaiman

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities. Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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“Kalian boleh maju dalam pelajaran, mungkin mencapai deretan gelar kesarjanaan apa saja, tapi tanpa mencintai sastra, kalian tinggal hanya hewan yang pandai.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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“Kesalahan orang-orang pandai ialah menganggap yang lain bodoh, dan kesalahan orang-orang bodoh ialah menganggap orang-orang lain pandai”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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“seorang terpelajar harus sudah berbuat adil sejak dalam pikiran apalagi dalam perbuatan”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

golden_rose

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
-SALMAN RUSHDIE-


Literature is the garden of wisdom.
-JAMES ELLIS-

Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.
-ROBERTO BOLANO-

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes-


Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
-Joseph Addison-


Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.     
-Benjamin Franklin-

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird