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

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"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 -

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"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) -

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

- Gustave Flaubert -

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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

- Frank Zappa -

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"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 -

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“The secret of it all is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood of the moment–to put things down without deliberation–without worrying about their style–without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote–wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.”
by Walt Whitman

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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

By Leo Tolstoy

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“There's always another story. When you read a book again and let your imagination take over, it can take you to new stories, so it's like a book inside the book!”
― Kate Westerlund, If You Wish

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“Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep.”
― Andreas Harpas

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“I realized that a book can reach out and embrace you like an arm and make you walk away from everything you thought you understood.”
― Jennifer Clement, Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

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“We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.”
― Orhan Pamuk

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“The First Book

Open it.

Go ahead, it won't bite.
Well. . . maybe a little.

More a nip, like. A tingle.
It's pleasurable, really.

You see, it keeps on opening.
You may fall in.

Sure, it's hard to get started;
remember learning to use

knife and fork? Dig in:
you'll never reach bottom.

It's not like it's the end of the world--
just the world as you think

you know it.”
― Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks

SepatUngu

"Reading is to the mind..what exercise is to the body.."

-Joseph Addison-

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      “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

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      “Berbicara itu mudah namun sulit dipertanggungjawabkan. Menulis lebih sulit namun lebih mudah dipertanggungjawabkan.”  
  ―    Felix Y. Siauw

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 -

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"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 -