Vertier Meldert Quotes

#1. Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way.

Rolf Dobelli

#2. We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

Lionel Barber

#3. [Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.

Neil Simon

#4. The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.

Kenneth Coutts-Smith

#5. The general perception of writers' lives is that they are exciting and desirable. But you generally spend most of your time cooking and cleaning.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#6. When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

Elizabeth Lesser

#7. I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

William Shakespeare