Eekhoutstraat Quotes

#1. Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Yeah," he said. They stood awkwardly for a while, then Sam said, "I don't want to sound weird, but you know I love you, right?"
"Love you, too, Sam."
Sam made a move as if to hug her, but stopped himself.
She smiled. "Yeah, we're not the huggy type, are we?

Michael Grant

#3. Hi. He turned and saw Kelsey standing in the door of the kitchen, looking ... Well, she was
glowing. That pregnant woman glow, maybe? Or just the sun hitting her face at the right time. Either
way, she looked hot, and he noticed

Maisey Yates

#4. Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.

Holly Black

#5. Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

Jerry Brown

#6. I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

Seamus Heaney

#7. Buttercup gives a flick of his tail that I take as agreement.

Suzanne Collins

#8. A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

#10. Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Andre Kertesz