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

bianglala

"But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science. Literature is mankind's organised response to the world around him, or her."

- David Nicholls (Starter for Ten) -

bianglala

"Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life."

- Mary Karr (The Art of Memoir) -

bianglala

"Literature is concerned with the self-conscious exploration of the lives of men, women and children in society. Even when it is comic, it sees life as something worth talking about. This is why airport fiction, or ‘blockbusters’, books which are all plot, can never be considered literature, and why, in the end, they are of little value. It is not only that the language in which they are written lacks bounce and poignancy, but that they don’t return the reader to the multifariousness and complication of existence… In literature personality is all, and the exploration of character – or portraiture, the human subject – is central to it."

- Hanif Kureishi -

seribulan

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

LelaRentaka7

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

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“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

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“Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. ”
― Lynn Abbey

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“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
― Brenda Ueland

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“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

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"You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”
― Allen Ginsberg

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“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
― Jackie Collins

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“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
― Martin Luther

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“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie






Hahaha that's a good one

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“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
― Steve Martin

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“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
― Richard Bach

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“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valéry

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“If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
― Charles Baudelaire