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

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“Kita tidak akan pernah benar-benar berhenti mencintai seseorang. Kita hanya belajar untuk hidup tanpa mereka.”  
  ―    Winna Efendi,          Unforgettable   

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“I have a question for you. "If your shadow is the second most beautiful thing in the world, which is the first?".”  
  ―    Amit Kalantri,          I Love You Too   

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Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

- Lee Child -

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

- Richard Bach -

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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or thigs you wouldn't say in real life.

- Maeve Binchy -

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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

- E.L Doctorow -

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Don't start with writing a best-seller. Start with writing a good line. Don't self publish, hoping to get rich. Do it hoping to find 10 readers who will become stalwart fans.

- M.J Rose -

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To read a book for the first time is to make a new acquiantance ; to read it for a second time is to meet an old friend.

- Chinese Saying -

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Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

- John Green -

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Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind ; it forces you to stretch your own.

- Charles Scribner Jr -

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham.

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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

- Alan Bennett -

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.–Woodrow Wilson