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Maka menulislah, untuk mengabadikan ingatan, untuk mengingat, teringat dan diingat. Scripta manent verba volant. Spoken words fly away, written ones stay.
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London, Karen Wilkinson-Wigham (37 tahun) memiliki 2 anak ketika mendapati dirinya terkena meningitis (radang selaput otak) pada bulan Desember 2005. Penyakit akibat infeksi itu membuat otaknya rusak dan tak mampu mengingat kedua anaknya.
Karen adalah salah satu pasien ajaib meningitis karena meski sempat koma masih tetap bertahan hidup. Tapi meski bisa bertahan hidup ingatannya benar-benar rusak untuk mengenal anaknya pun sudah tak mampu.… Continue reading
The coroner will find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.
~C. Astrid Weber
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
~Charles Caleb Colton
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
~Author Unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (*) (Thank you, Frank Lynch.)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have… Continue reading
Every word born of an inner necessity – writing must never be anything else.
~Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski
A writer’s mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
~Ethel Wilson
Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man.
~Emily Dickinson
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.
~Don Marquis
There are men that will make… Continue reading
Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
~Flannery O’Connor
Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.
~Graycie Harmon
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
~Joan Baez
When a man… Continue reading
A metaphor is like a simile.
~Author Unknown
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
~Mark Twain
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
~Jules Renard, “Diary,” February 1895
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
~Author Unknown
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
~Karl Kraus
A prose writer gets tired of… Continue reading
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