Karen Blixen

"I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story."

"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."

"I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea."

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."