| Kutipan tentang Profesi Penulis |
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| Ditulis Oleh Didik Wijaya | |
| Rabu, 07 Februari 2007 | |
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Artikel ringan ini menyajikan berbagai kutipan dari berbagai tokoh tentang profesi penulis, kegiatan menulis, dan segala hal di sekitarnya. Beberapa kutipan ini akan menyegarkan, memberi semangat, kadang menyentil, menohok, dan mungkin beberapa akan membuat Anda tersenyum simpul. Mana kutipan favorit Anda? "Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking." "If you don’t have a six-figure deal by the time you’re thirty-five, you’ve failed. In fact, why even be a writer?" "When I am dead, I hope it is said,'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'." "A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life." "Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him." "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public." "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." "The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way." "I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." "There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one." "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." "Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason." "Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come." "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." "I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?" "To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done." "The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so." "Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, and Tennessee Williams has about five, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them." "There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it." "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill" "The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads." "I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell." "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." "The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block." "The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." "Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard." "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." "Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long." "A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor." "Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away." "The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything." "For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." "Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors." "A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?" "My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip." "Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person." "A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty." "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." "Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money." "Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death." Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. "Learn as much by writing as by reading." "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." "I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!" "Not because writing is much pleasure; but not to write is pain." "Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."
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