Vreeswijk Cornelis Quotes & Sayings

We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go
Always a little further; it may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea,
White on a throne or guarded in a cave
There lies a prophet who can understand
Why men were born: but surely we are brave,
Who take the Golden Road to Samarkand. — James Elroy Flecker

Type should be beautiful - Screw readable! — Ed Benguiat

Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a writer can do is to present it as "in a glass, darkly". — E.T.A. Hoffmann

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. — Michel Faber

Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle. — David Quammen

Quality is not an an act, it's a habit. — Aristotle.

First loves were powerful and private,and they stayed with you for a very long time. A lifetime.( ... ) There would always be a small,intimate piece of your heart tucked away for the person you loved first. — Lauren Weisberger

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby