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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Writers will happen in the best of families. (Rita Mae Brown)
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. (Thomas Berger)
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. (Oscar Wilde)
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. (Deborah Tannen)
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. (Hans Georg Gadamer)
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. (Edwin Schlossberg)
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw)
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. (Benjamin Disraeli)
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)
Western Europe owes its civilization to translators. (Kelly Louis)
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. (H. G. Wells)
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. (Robert Heinlein)
Language is an art, like brewing or baking. (Charles Darwin)
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. (Jack Lynch)
Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' (Jef Mallett)

teksten routes Zeeuws-Vlaanderen

In opdracht van VVV Zeeland heb ik een routeboekje geschreven over het grensgebied Zeeuws-Vlaanderen/België. ‘Op Smokkelpad’ is nu uit en je kunt het boekje met twee wandelroutes en één fietsroute nu ophalen bij alle Zeeuwse VVV-kantoren.

Philippine en Zuiddorpe
Voor het boekje heb ik de omgeving van Philippine en Zuiddorpe verkend. En hier en daar ben ik de grens overgestoken. Een van de leukste momenten beleefde ik toen ik, net over de Belgische grens, werd aangesproken door een Vlaamse boer op leeftijd. Hij begon honderduit over de streek, zijn gewassen, de dodendraad en klimaatverandering te vertellen. En passant gaf hij ook nog talloze totaal onnavolgbare routetips.

landschap vol verhalen
Zo’n bijzondere kerel komt niet iedereen onderweg tegen, natuurlijk. Maar je wandelt en fietst wel in een landschap vol verhalen. De grens is hier meerdere keren van hot naar her verschoven, er is flink wat afgevochten in meerdere oorlogen, grote delen van het land zijn ooit onder water gezet en er werd gesmokkeld bij het leven. Dat laat zijn resten na en je ziet er nog veel van terug als je goed om je heen kijkt. Zelf heb ik een aantal van die verhalen proberen te vangen in ‘Op Smokkelpad’.

meer over teksten van Sonja Barentsen

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Writers will happen in the best of families. (Rita Mae Brown)

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. (Thomas Berger)

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. (Oscar Wilde)

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. (Deborah Tannen)

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. (Hans Georg Gadamer)

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. (Edwin Schlossberg)

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. (George Bernard Shaw)

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. (Benjamin Disraeli)

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)

Western Europe owes its civilization to translators. (Kelly Louis)

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. (H. G. Wells)

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. (Robert Heinlein)

Language is an art, like brewing or baking. (Charles Darwin)

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. (Jack Lynch)

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.' (Jef Mallett)

teksten routes Zeeuws-Vlaanderen