"There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich"

“I really fight for my privacy.”

“It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.”

“For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying.”

Source : Stephen Dobyns (2011). “Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry”, p.59, Macmillan

“With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.”

“I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.”

“I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.”

Source : "Talking About Werewolves with Kandyse McClure of Hemlock Grove". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. April 19, 2013.

“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”

“At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.”