MENGAPA AKU MENULIS?

kecewa kuota internet habis, ga bisa nonton drama turki,. Oke sebagai pelampiasan, gw buka lagi ”Letter From Turkey” karangan Faris BQ. Kekecewaan mulai terobati, membaca lagi bagian yang telah gw kasih garis sebelumnya, jadi ga perlu baca utuh semuanya. Dari sekian bagian penting yang gw garis-garis, pada halaman belakang ada tulisan dari Orhan Pamuk, peraih nobel asal Turki di bidang sastra. Tulisan ini mewakili alasan-alasan kenapa gw menulis., (sok penting gitu ya, padahal cakar ayam. Yasudalah namanya juga hobi. gimana lagi. Jangan protes)

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 whole 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 once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page I to finish it.

I write because everyone expects me to write.

I write because I have a childish belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books 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.