Hari Buku Nasional 2021: Kutipan Sastrawan, Pram hingga Murakami

Kegiatan membaca buku sendiri mempunyai manfaat positif, mulai dari mampu memperkuat otak, memperbesar rasa empati, sampai dengan mengurangi depresi.

Terkait hal ini, berikut adalah kutipan soal buku dan agenda membaca dari tokoh sastrawan, baik sastrawan Indonesia maupun dan penulis dunia.

1. “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.
2. “Kalian boleh maju dalam pelajaran, mungkin mencapai deretan gelar kesarjanaan apa saja, tapi tanpa mencintai sastra, kalian tinggal hanya hewan yang pandai.” ― Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
3. “Kalau sebuah bahasa dengan kesusasteraannya tidak didukung oleh tradisi membaca masyarakatnya, maka kematiannya akan segera menyusul”― Ajip Rosidi.
4. “Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat.” ― Mochtar Lubis
5. ''The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library'' - Albert Einstein
6. "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life" - Mark Twain
7. ''There is no friend as loyal as a book" - Ernest Hemingway
8. ''Books are a uniquely portable magic'' - Stephen King
9. ''That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet'' - Jhumpa Lahiri
10. ''Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world'' - Malala Yousafzai
11. ''I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book'' - J.K. Rowling
12. "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though" - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
13. ''You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me'' - C.S. Lewis
14. "One must always be careful of books,’ said Tessa, ‘and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.’” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
15. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.” ― George R.R. Martin
16. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
17. “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” -Annie Dillard
18. "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." - by Jorge Luis Borges
19. "If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." - by Toni Morrison
20. "A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book." - by Robert M. Gates.
21. "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking" - Haruki Murakami.