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

QueenBey

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons)
Author: Stephen King


“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

QueenBey

‘Rising Strong’ by Brené Brown


Favorite quote:
“There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers than those of us who are willing to fall because we have learned how to rise.”

QueenBey

‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho


Favorite quote:
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

QueenBey

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee


Favorite quote:
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

QueenBey

‘On My Own’ by Diane Rehm


Favorite quote:
“I don’t believe in closure. What does it really mean? Does it mean the closing of a door, the locking up of memories, the refusal to allow a flow of consciousness that may involve some measure of grief?”

QueenBey

‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ by Stephen Chbosky


Favorite quote:
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

QueenBey

‘Love Warrior’ by Glennon Doyle Melton


Favorite quote:
“Beautiful means ‘full of beauty.’ Beautiful is not about how you look on the outside, beautiful is about what you’re made of. Beautiful people spend time discovering what their idea of beauty on this earth is. They know themselves well enough to know what they love, and they love themselves enough to fill up with a little of their particular kind of beauty each day.”

QueenBey

‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ by Maya Angelou


Favorite quote:
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

QueenBey

‘When Breath Becomes Air’ by Paul Kalanithi


Favorite quote:
“It cannot be doubted that each of us can only see part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”

QueenBey

‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green


Favorite quote:
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

QueenBey

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

--Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

QueenBey

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."


--Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

seribulan

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach

seribulan

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas Alva Edison

bianglala

If you end a book and think nothing could be improved-you’re a reader.
If you end a book and think everything could be improved-you’re a writer.

—  Jonny Gellar

bianglala

Do you really like to read that much? I looked at her as if she had asked me if I loved music, or bread and salted butter, or ripe fruit in the summertime.

—  André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

bianglala

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

—  Salman Rushdie

bianglala

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”

— Neil Gaiman

maplesue

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

— Edmund Burke

maplesue

“The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one’s encounter with it in a book.”

— André Maurois