|
|
[Pelbagai]
...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...
[Copy link]
|
|
|
|
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.” -Jo Walton |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.” - Jo Walton |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way." Charles Bukowski |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“I have not adorned this work with fine phrases, with swelling, pompous words, or with any of those blandishments or external ornaments with which many set forth and decorate their matter. For I have chosen either that nothing at all should bring it honor or that the variety of its material and the gravity of its subject matter alone should make it welcome.” - Machiavelli |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” Franz Kafka |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. - Madeleine L'Engle |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“I hate writing, I love having written.” -Dorothy Parker |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"I can't write five words but that I change seven." - Dorothy Parker |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.” ― Lloyd Alexander |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” ― Frank Herbert |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"There is only one rule in writing: thou shall not bore." ~ Barbara Kyle in Page Turner. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Writers do not write because the want to, writers write because they have to" - Anon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter." - James Michener |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Art is never finished, only abandoned" - Anon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"The main point I made was that he'd fallen prey to a fallacy that nails a lot of first timers. He was way more interested in telling his one story than in being a writer." - Josh Olson |
Rate
-
1
View Rating Log
-
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Category: Belia & Informasi
|
Post time 12-3-2019 05:04 PM
