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

golden_rose

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.     
-Boris Pasternak-


Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
-Ezra Pound-


Literature is the question minus the answer.
-Roland Barthes-

golden_rose

Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat.
Kegemaran membaca;sebuah kebahgian.
-Goenawan Mohamad-

red_mist

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Cassandra Clare

red_mist

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett

zueazza

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud

zueazza

Life is like a box of crayons - John Mayer

zueazza

I prefer living in color - David Hockney

bianglala

"It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write."

- Ally Condie -

bianglala

"I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive."

- Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes) -

bianglala

"I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody."

- David Bowie -

bianglala

"There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart."

- Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) -

bianglala

"You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful."

- Gustave Flaubert -

bianglala

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

- Frank Zappa -

bianglala

"I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them."

- Haruki Murakami -

bianglala

"The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight. If you do not do it, the story is a failure. [...] There is no nobler chore in the universe than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal', the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally."

- Harlan Ellison -

bianglala

"You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist."

- Bob Dylan -

bianglala

"That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard."

- Tarryn Fisher (Mud Vein)

seribulan

      “With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight.”  
  ―    Guy Fraser-Sampson

seribulan

“It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart.”  
  ―    J. Spredemann

mizzy

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

–Neil Gaiman