"You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me"

“A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.”

“The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.”

“I visited Eduardo Miura’s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.”

“There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.”

Source : "Five Things to Know About ABC's 'Cristela'" by Bryn Elise Sandberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2014.

“When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and the Gettysburg Address and much more, but not Lincoln's Second Inauguration, I challenged that omission and they said find something on it and to my astonishment, at that time, there was no book or long article that really did it. So I wrote one that attempted to do it justice. Although obscurely published, that essay got a nice bounce. Somehow David Donald saw it, and in his notes to his biography singled it out.”

“Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

“The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.”

“Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.”

Source : Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.59, Hachette UK