Quotes

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.