Dermot Healy Quotes

#1. I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

Seamus Heaney

#2. The baby gazed up at Alec with grave eyes only a shade darker than Alec's own. Alec gazed back at the baby. He looked as surprised as anyone else by the baby's sudden hush.

Cassandra Clare

#3. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.

Albert Einstein

#4. It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins.

Dermot Healy

#5. It's plausibly a case of any kind of system that's been under enormous silent pressure for some time, that when the system finally blows the accreted pressure's such that it's almost always a full-scale eruption.

David Foster Wallace

#6. It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

Hugo Weaving

#7. There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.

Dermot Healy

#8. I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.

Dagur Kari

#9. You can accomplish anything with students if you set high expectations for behavior and performance by which you yourself abide.

Harry K. Wong

#10. When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

Dermot Healy

#11. ...and he suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight ahead into an empty space till slowly we returned into view. I can make small talk, he said slowly, I can do that but out of the corner of my eye I can see the dark approaching.

Dermot Healy

#12. I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

Dermot Healy

#13. There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

Dermot Healy

#14. Value a day
only by the love
that you gave away.

Debasish Mridha

#15. If content is King, context is God.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#16. Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

Dermot Healy