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

LelaRentaka7

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.”
― Gore Vidal

LelaRentaka7

“One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.”
― Gustave Flaubert

LelaRentaka7

“Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.”
― Azar Nafisi

LelaRentaka7

“To write a novel, you need an iron butt.”
― Richard M. Nixon

LelaRentaka7

“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.”
― Catherine Drinker Bowen

LelaRentaka7

“And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right.
Happy Eighth birthday, blog.”
― Neil Gaiman

LelaRentaka7

“And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.”
― Maynard James Keenan

LelaRentaka7

“Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!”
― Robert Ahaness

LelaRentaka7

“A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

LelaRentaka7

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.”
― Richard P. Denney

bianglala

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."  

(Matagorda: The First Fast Draw - Louis L'Amour)

bianglala

"A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think."

(The Walking Drum - Louis L'Amour)

bianglala

"We needed books, we needed something on which to build dreams."

(Ride the River - Louis L'Amour)

bianglala

"Reading without thinking is nothing."

(The Walking Drum - Louis L'Amour)

bianglala

"Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long."   

(Education of a Wandering Man - Louis L'Amour)

bianglala

"I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn."  

(Education of a Wandering Man - Louis L'Amour)

bianglala

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

(Education of a Wandering Man - Louis L'Amour)

bianglala

"One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend."

(Education of a Wandering Man -Louis L'Amour )

seribulan

bianglala

"And so to read is, in truth, to be in the constant act of creation. The old lady on the bus with her Orwell, the businessman on the Tube with Patricia Cornwell, the teenager roaring through Capote -- they are not engaged in idle pleasure. Their heads are on fire. Their hearts are flooding. With a book, you are the landscape, the sets, the snow, the hero, the kiss -- you are the mathematical calculation that plots the trajectory of the blazing, crashing zeppelin. You -- pale, punchable reader -- are terraforming whole worlds in your head, which will remain with you until the day you die. These books are as much a part of you as your guts and your bone. And when your guts fail and your bones break, Narnia, or Jamaica Inn, or Gormenghast will still be there; as pin-sharp and bright as the day you first imagined them -- hiding under the bedclothes, sitting on the bus. Exhausted, on a rainy day, weeping over the death of someone you never met, and who was nothing more than words until you transfused them with your time, and your love, and the imagination you constantly dismiss as "just being a bit of a bookworm."

— Caitlin Moran