"For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog."

“When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking.”

“When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!”

“They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that”

“People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com

“I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 16, 2006.

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”

“Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

“I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.”