Candymanuntil Quotes

#1. I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.

Tony Harrison

#2. I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

Rick James

#3. You can only write about what you don't know, and find out about it in the writing.

Jessamyn West

#4. Wait until you're old, Nora," she said, "and then you'll know. It's the mixture of being content with even the smallest thing and then feeling a great dissatisfaction with everything.

Colm Toibin

#5. Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

Michael Cadnum

#6. Ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways.

James Davison Hunter

#7. Are you certain they will manage without me?" "We will be back in only a few hours. How bad can it get?" "Don't tempt fate, my love.

Gail Carriger