- Strange that you only have family to meet them at deathbeds and funerals.
- She owes her success to two big things, a left thing and a right thing.
- The hardest battle in life is the battle not to become bitter.
- A James Bond book is stupid but exciting, while a masterpiece of Flemish literature is equally stupid but also annoying.
- What benefit does a young girl gain from a book that is suitable for young girls?
- In life it always comes down to how one feels it, and not how it is.
- I like any color, as long as it's red.
- People who have nothing to say write books. People who have a lot to say cannot write
- Kick people until they have a conscience.
- A Flemish person can always laugh three times at a joke. The first time when you tell them, the second time when you explain them and the third time when he understands them.
- The Dutch are just Flemish, only they have forgotten it.
- It's difficult if they recognize you everywhere, but it's even more difficult if no one sees you.
- Anyone who wants to become a novelist has quite a difficult time during the first hundred years.
- What could be more alluring, more mysterious, more devilish than a forbidden book?
- If you close your ears to the radio you have nothing, if you close your eyes to television you have bad radio.
- Hemorrhoids: sadness on my butt.
- In Flanders there are too many men of letters and too few people who have something to write about.
- The frontier of the American novel is in breadth the film, and in depth the dollar.
- Gentleman: someone who also writes poems, but keeps quiet about it.
- A bestseller is a book from which the publisher earns a lot of money.
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