Sylvia Plath

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian.”

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Jack Kerouac

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

Ernest Hemingway

Stephen King

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

Stephen King

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

“A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness… It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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