Forney Quotes

#1. I find that stability is good for my creativity.

Ellen Forney

#2. No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Jennifer Echols

#3. I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

Ellen Forney

#4. I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

Ellen Forney

#5. Come on, Forney.'
Novalee, it's a parasite.'
But it's a tradition.'
It's a parasite! And you expect people to stand under it and kiss?'
Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.

Billie Letts

#6. Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain.

Ellen Forney

#7. I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

Ellen Forney

#8. happy, whole people are drawn to happy, whole people, but nothing makes a toxic person more miserable and destructive than a happy, whole person. Unhappy people do not like it when a fellow unhappy person becomes happy.

Shonda Rhimes

#9. One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

Shawn Colvin

#10. Forney in 'Where the Heart Is' has more fans than any other character I've played.

James Frain

#11. The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Raymond Queneau

#12. Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Ellen Forney

#14. My head is a hive of words that won't settle.

Virginia Woolf

#15. 'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

Ellen Forney