Reasons Why I Must Write

Why I Must Write - Orphan Pamuk (Peraih Nobel Sastra)

I Write because I have an innate need to write
I Write because I can't do normal work as other people do

I Write because I want to read books like the ones I write
I Write because I am angry at everyone
I Write because I love sitting in a room all day writing
I Write because I can partake of real life only by changing it

I write because I want others, the world, to know what sort of life we lived, and continue to live, in Istanbul, in Turkey

I Write because I Love the smell of paper, pen, and ink
I Write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else.

I Write because it is a habit, a passion.
I Write because I am afraid of being forgotten
I Write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings

I Write to be alone
Perhaps I Write because I hope to understand why..
I am so very, very angry at everyone

I Write because I like to be read
I Write because one I have begun a novel, an essay, a page I want to finish it
I Write because everyone expects me to write

I Write because I have a childish belief in the immortality of libraires, and in the way my book sit on the shelf
I Write because it is exciting to turn all life's beauties and riches into words
I Write not to tell a story but to compose a story

I Write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but - as in a dream - can't quite get to

I Write because I have never managed to be happy
I Write to be Happy....

(dikutip dari buku Letters from Turkey-hal 398)

"Saya berharap ketika menemukan diri yang kehilangan semangat untuk menulis, alasan-alasan ini bisa kembali memotivasi. "I WRITE TO BE HAPPY"

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