Kata Mutiara Tentang Menulis

1. "Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head." --Mike Rich
2. "Menulis adalah mudah. Yang harus kamu lakukan adalah mencoret kata-kata yang salah." -- Mark Twain
3. "Reading is more important than writing." -- Roberto Bolaño
4. "The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it." Alain Robbe-Grille
5. "..Menjadi penulis sesungguhnya menjalani hari2 layaknya seorang pemimpi yg memiliki kehidupan ganda" -- Jorge Luis Borges
6. "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."(Anaïs Nin)
7. "It is perfectly okay to write garbage - as long as you edit brilliantly." -- C. J. Cherryh
8. "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down". -- Robert Frost
9. “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ― Thomas Mann
10. "I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I'm not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."- Joss Whedon
11. "If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." ― Stephen King
12. “Ketika sebuah karya selesai ditulis, maka pengarang tak mati. Ia baru saja memperpanjang umurnya lagi” - Helvy Tiana Rosa
13. “Jika aku menulis dilarang, aku akan menulis dengan tetes darah!” ― Wiji Thukul, Aku Ingin Jadi Peluru
14. “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah" -- Pramoedya AT