|
|
“I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!”
― Joseph Conrad, The Lagoon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!”
― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“And ever, as the story drained
The wells of fancy dry,
And faintly strove that weary one
To put the subject by,
"The rest next time--" "It is next time!"
The Happy voice cry.
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!”
― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries |
Rate
-
1
View Rating Log
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.”
― Hillary Frank, I Can't Tell You |
Rate
-
1
View Rating Log
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.
Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.”
― Chitralekha Paul, Delayed Monsoon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“And those women were sneaky. They understood that including fantastical elements in their tales- golden eggs, signing harps, talking frogs- worked to mask a deeper purpose....it made the stories look on the surface like 'a mere bubble of nonsense' within which it was possible to 'utter harsh truths, to say what you dare' about the state of women's lives. Because they were just stories, right? Harmless little fantasies?”
― Christine Heppermann, Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. [VW]”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Politeness Of Princes And Other School Stories |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Why write stories? To join the conversation.”
― Dorothy Allison, Trash: Stories |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.”
― Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.”
― Stephen King, Misery |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Category: Belia & Informasi
|
Post time 5-6-2018 09:24 PM
Author
