Quotes & Sayings About Crooked Roads

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."
The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up.
But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible
villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word — Brenda Ueland

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius. — Robert Towne

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. — William Blake