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“I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.”
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“When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.”
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“I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.”
Source : "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com. 
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“The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
Source : 'The Great Tradition' (1948) ch. 1
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“A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.”
Source : "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.
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“I hate it. I hate taxidermy shops and all that crap.”
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“Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.”
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“No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.”
Source : Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.
