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Kreativitas

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 I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

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Ernest Hemingway

Kreativitas

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

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Kreativitas

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.

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Kreativitas

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

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Kreativitas

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

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Kreativitas

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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Kreativitas

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.

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Pendidikan

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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Ernest Hemingway

Kreativitas

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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Kreativitas

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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Ernest Hemingway

Kreativitas

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

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Kreativitas

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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Seni

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

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Kreativitas

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

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Ernest Hemingway

Kreativitas

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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Abraham Lincoln

Waktu

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

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Haruki Murakami

Kreativitas

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

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Ernest Hemingway

Kreativitas

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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Kreativitas

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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Haruki Murakami

Kreativitas

The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.

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