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“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”
“Buku yang kau tulis adalah semacam jejak yang terus menyala di dunia, dan bisa menjadi cahaya akhiratmu.”
“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
“take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning”
“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 sur...”
“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”
“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
“In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you...”
“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
“Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning?" "The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. ...”
“She doesn't quite chop his head off.She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”
“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”
“It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”
“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”
“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. Thats 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tal...”
“Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When Im writing, I write. ...”
“Writing is a dogs life, but the only one worth living.”
