tirsdag den 24. februar 2009

May I Quote You on That?

Forleden dag i et indlæg kom jeg med dette citat af C. S. Lewis: "We read to know that we are not alone."

Selve tanken om citater gav straks anledning til at rode mine links og samlinger igennem. Så hvis du også tænder på et godt citat, vil jeg lige her og nu dele nogle af mine favoritter – den engelske afdeling i denne omgang. Specielt udvalgt til temaet reader & writer.

Det er svært at anbefale et bestemt site, da der er så mange (men der er jo altid Google og andre søgevidundere), dog vil jeg alligevel nævne http://theotherpages.org/quote.html, som præsenterer sig således: ’This site is intended as a place to wander, a place where you can find something new each time you look around.’ Resten af theotherpages.org er absolut også et besøg værd. Blog. Billeder. (Og forleden anbefalede jeg http://goodreads.com/, hvor der er et væld af pragtfulde citater.)

Tilbage til favoritterne. Mine.

READING:

”The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.”
—Margaret Atwood

”Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
—Angela Carter

”When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”
—W. Somerset Maugham

”I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.”
—Jorge Luis Borges
WRITING:

”You are what you write.”
—Helvy Tiana Rosa (Risalah Cinta)

”The best style is the style you don't notice.”
—W. Somerset Maugham

”We write in order to live twice.”
—Anaïs Nin

”One is so much richer for being a great number of people.”
—A. S. Byatt

”I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
—Francoise Sagan

”If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”
—Ernest Hemingway

“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which awaits always before or behind.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen
READING & WRITING:

”Learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
—Eudora Welty

”If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
—Toni Morrison
WRITING & SEX/LOVE:

”Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
—Isabel Allende

”Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
—Virginia Woolf

Okay, nuff said. I’ve got to go. So did Oscar:

”This wallpaper is dreadful. One of us has simply got to go.”
—Oscar Wilde (last words)

2 kommentarer:

  1. Herlig samling af citater fra nogle af de ´gode gamle´ forfattere :)

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  2. Kære Dorte H
    Tak! Og må jeg sige, jeg er blevet en stor beundrer af din blog. Utroligt mange nyttige oplysninger.
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