# “A PROFFESIONAL WRITER IS AN AMATEUR WHO DIDN'T QUIT.” # Richard Bach. # PART 1

Pientje behind her desk. I'm still on me wey, busy with the next book!

I know I'm not a proffesional, yet, but I'm for sure an amateur who doesn't quit!

What is an amateur? 

The word amateur is a derivative of the Latin verb amo meaning:  to love. 

A SOULMATE

image by Pina

“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. 
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. "

Richard Bach

DREAM POWER # part 2 # BEN OKRI

A DREAM CAN BE THE HIGHLIGHT IN YOUR LIFE # BEN OKRI





http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ben-okri
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/okri.htm

Ben Okri is one of my favorite writers.
The first book I read of him was: The Famished Road 1991.


 

On this photo is Martha van Vooren 1943- 2010.

She was a dear friend of mine from Amsterdam.

Matha was a translator and amongst a few other books,
she has also translated two of Ben Okri's books:
Songs of Enchantment in 1994 and The Famished Road in 2004

ONE OF MARTHA'S DREAMS WAS TO MEET BEN OKRI # AND SHE DID!

When I told her that I was writing a book, she said that she wanted to be in it, just short, and her name should be Suikerbuik, which means sugar tummy. She is on page 54.

"When we have made an experience or a chaos into a story we have transformed it,

made sense of it, transmuted experience, domesticated the chaos." Ben Okri

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." Richard Bach

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it happen". Richard Bach

# DREAM POWER #

YOU ARE NEVER GIVEN A DREAM WITHOUT ALSO BEING
GIVEN THE POWER TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.  # Richard Bach #