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[Pelbagai] ...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

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Post time 12-4-2018 05:23 AM | Show all posts
The hard part is putting one word after another
Jo Linsdell
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:27 AM | Show all posts
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:30 AM | Show all posts
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:30 AM | Show all posts
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:32 AM | Show all posts
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Anaïs Nin
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:34 AM | Show all posts
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:35 AM | Show all posts
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Saul Bellow
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:35 AM | Show all posts
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

William Faulkner
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:36 AM | Show all posts
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Robert Frost
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:39 AM | Show all posts
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

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Post time 12-4-2018 05:40 AM | Show all posts
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:40 AM | Show all posts
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E.L. Doctorow
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:41 AM | Show all posts
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L'Amour
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:42 AM | Show all posts
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Frank Herbert
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Post time 12-4-2018 05:43 AM | Show all posts
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Philip Pullman

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Post time 14-4-2018 04:06 AM | Show all posts
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it

― Winston S. Churchill
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Post time 14-4-2018 04:09 AM | Show all posts
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live

― Henry David Thoreau
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Post time 14-4-2018 04:10 AM | Show all posts
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

― Neil Gaiman
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Post time 14-4-2018 04:11 AM | Show all posts
The first draft of anything is shit

― Ernest Hemingway
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Post time 14-4-2018 04:12 AM | Show all posts
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn

― Anne Frank

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