“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”
“I write to escape. I haven t managed it yet, but I m working on it”
“Menulis cerita pendek dan novel bukanlah sesuatu hal yang dapat aku lakukan dengan mudah dan menyenangkan.”
“Don t over edit. Don t second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep at it. Don t get discouraged with the rejections. Tape them up on your office wall, to remind you of all the hard work you put in when you finally start getting published! It s all about persistence and passion. And have fun with it. Don t forget to have fun.”
“The eternal paradox of writing for a Poet: do you try simplicity in complexity or complexity in simplicity?”
“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There s a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are made in the locked subconscious, decisions not just on the writing but on the conditions for writing: I resolve on the one story I ve never told and lo! Here I sit, holed up in a house that means nothing to me, bone-certain no other places will do. Art, even the humble autobiographer s, invokes occult necessities.”
“Kegiatan fisik dalam menulis fiksi bertolak belakang dengan hasil yang didapat. Kegiatan tersebut adalah duduk tegang dan jenuh sepanjang siang atau malam di depan meja dan mesin ketik, pada saat aku ingin berdiri dan pergi ke suatu tempat untuk melihat sesuatu yang aku yakini lebih menarik dibanding apa yang sedang aku kerjakan.”
“Menulis fiksi adalah menuangkan perasaan dan semangat hidup dalam untaian kata-kata di atas kertas-sebuah usaha tanpa akhir untuk mendapatkan makna-makna yang berbeda”
“Don t believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”
“We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.”
“Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.”
“There is something way more bigger than just being a writer. Being a writer doesn’t mean you just write about things because you want that. It means that you are capable to feel this world and every emotion deepest than you can, and you’re just sharing that with people all around the world. It means that there is something common between infinity and writing. Writing makes me feel immortal. You just can’t stop, cause there are endless words inside of you…”
“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”
“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a pet subject or issue can the writer develop a thematic tone that speaks to other people with authority and serenity. The quality of their literary voice is the crucial part of the writer’s legitimacy, and their authenticity cannot come from mimicking other writers’ style, but must evolve naturally from their inner sanctity and must flow effusively from an inner necessity.”
“Heavy as such things are After the wordslide, the writing begins. From Word Quake”
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That s what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.”
“Writing starts with living.”