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

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Post time 17-10-2018 03:08 PM | Show all posts
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. Even on the first page I was so affected by the book’s intensity I felt my body sever itself and pull away from the chair where I sat reading the book that lay before me on the table. But even though I felt my body dissociating, my entire being remained so concertedly at the table that the book worked its influence not only on my soul but on every aspect of my identity. It was such a powerful influence that the light surging from the pages illumined my face; its incandescence dazzled my intellect but also endowed it with brilliant lucidity. This was the kind of light within which I could recast myself; I could lose my way in this light; I already sensed in the light the shadows of an existence I had yet to know and embrace. I sat at the table, turning the pages, my mind barely aware that I was reading, and my whole life was changing as I read the new words on each new page. I felt so unprepared for everything that was to befall me, and so helpless, that after a while I moved my face away instinctively as if to protect myself from the power that surged from the pages. It was with dread that I became aware of the complete transformation of the world around me, and I was overtaken by a feeling of loneliness I had never before experienced–as if I had been stranded in a country where I knew neither the lay of the land nor the language and the customs."

ORHAN PAMUK
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Post time 17-10-2018 03:08 PM | Show all posts
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.”

PAUL AUSTER
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Post time 17-10-2018 03:08 PM | Show all posts
“This is where reading, real reading, comes in–because it demands space, because by drawing us back from the primacy of the instant it restores time to us in a more fundamental way. It’s not possible to read a book in the present, for books exist in many moments all at once.”

DAVID L. ULIN
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Post time 17-10-2018 03:08 PM | Show all posts
“What’s missing from the current dispensation is a sense of hope when we confront major works, the hope that they will tell us something we do not know about the world or give us an entirely fresh way to apprehend the experience. We need to learn not simply to read books, but to allow ourselves to be read by them.”

MARK EDMUNSON
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Post time 17-10-2018 03:09 PM | Show all posts
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”

ANNIE DILLARD

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 Author| Post time 17-10-2018 05:22 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
Every book I’ve read appears in my writing.” — Rob Bignell
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Post time 19-10-2018 06:32 PM | Show all posts
“I was wondering what could I do for the people who have suffered. But I thought, ‘What I can do is to write good fiction'. I came back to Japan after the earthquake in Kobe and the train attack. I felt that I should have come home so there should be something I could do for the people, not for the country. After all, when I write a good story, good fiction, we can understand each other if you are a reader and I’m a writer."

HARUKI MURAKAMI
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Post time 19-10-2018 06:32 PM | Show all posts
I got the idea that I thought I could write it, and I started to write and kept on writing. You wait for the right moment, and it will come to you. You need confidence that you will get an idea. And I have confidence because I have been writing for almost 40 years, and I know how to do it.

HARUKI MURAKAMI
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Post time 19-10-2018 06:32 PM | Show all posts
"I’m a realistic person, a practical person, but when I write fiction I go to weird, secret places in myself. What I am doing is an exploration of myself — inside myself. If you close your eyes and dive into yourself you can see a different world. It’s like exploring the cosmos, but inside yourself."

HARUKI MURAKAMI

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 Author| Post time 19-10-2018 09:28 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
“The only way to learn to write is to write.” — Peggy Teeters
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Post time 20-10-2018 02:58 PM | Show all posts
“When you write a story you're not trying to prove anything or demonstrate the merits of this case or the flaws in that. At its simplest, what you're doing is making up some interesting events, putting them in the best order to show the connections between them and recounting them as clearly as you can.”

PHILIP PULLMAN
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Post time 20-10-2018 02:59 PM | Show all posts
"And this is perhaps the first thing to say about writing and intention: intending to write a particular kind of story is not the same sort of thing as intending to rake up the leaves on the lawn, or telephone one's cousin, or buy a present for one's grandchild. We know we can do those things. We don't know we can write a story that will be funny, or moving, or exciting, though we hope we can. All we can honestly intend to do is try."

PHILIP PULLMAN
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Post time 20-10-2018 02:59 PM | Show all posts
"The mind has plenty of ways of preventing you from writing, and paralyzing self-consciousness is a good one. The only thing to do is ignore it, and remember what Vincent van Gogh said in one of his letters about the painter's fear of the blank canvas — the canvas, he said, is far more afraid of the painter."

PHILIP PULLMAN
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Post time 20-10-2018 02:59 PM | Show all posts
"I learned a long time ago that it was a mistake to intend, in a calm and rational way, having looked at a range of options and considered their relative merits and drawbacks, to write a certain book rather than another. The part of me that intended to write that particular book wasn't capable of it, and the part of me that was capable of writing books didn't want to write that one."

PHILIP PULLMAN

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 Author| Post time 20-10-2018 06:52 PM | Show all posts
“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” — Ernest Hemingway
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Post time 22-10-2018 04:01 PM | Show all posts
"Beware of writers who tell you how hard they work. (Beware of anybody who tries to tell you that.) Writing is indeed often dark and lonely, but no one really has to do it. Yes, writing can be complicated, exhausting, isolating, abstracting, boring, dulling, briefly exhilarating; it can be made to be grueling and demoralizing. And occasionally it can produce rewards. But it's never as hard as, say, piloting an L-1011 into O'Hare on a snowy night in January, or doing brain surgery when you have to stand up for 10 hours straight, and once you start you can't just stop. If you're a writer, you can stop anywhere, any time, and no one will care or ever know. Plus, the results might be better if you do."

RICHARD FORD
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Post time 22-10-2018 04:01 PM | Show all posts
"Carpe diem. Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. If your inner critic continues to plague you with invidious comparisons, scream, 'Ancestor worship!' and leave the building."

ALLEGRA GOODMAN
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Post time 22-10-2018 04:02 PM | Show all posts
"If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day. The consistency, the monotony, the certainty, all vagaries and passions are covered by this daily reoccurrence. You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning. Sleep comes to you each day, and so does the muse."

WALTER MOSLEY
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Post time 22-10-2018 04:02 PM | Show all posts
"How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. ... If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up."

WILLIAM SAROYAN
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Post time 22-10-2018 04:02 PM | Show all posts
"I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible."

ALICE HOFFMAN
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