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“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Kalian boleh maju dalam pelajaran, mungkin mencapai deretan gelar kesarjanaan apa saja, tapi tanpa mencintai sastra, kalian tinggal hanya hewan yang pandai.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun? Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari. (Mama, 84)”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Child of All Nations

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
― Yves Saint Laurent

“aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana;
dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan
kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu

aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana;
dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada”
― Sapardi Djoko Damono

“Menulis adalah sebuah keberanian...”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Menulislah sedari SD, apa pun yang ditulis sedari SD pasti jadi.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
― Gene Fowler

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“You are what you write.”
― Helvy Tiana Rosa, Risalah Cinta

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham