Tony Earley Quotes

#1. Depression is like pushing a car up a hill. It takes all my energy to push the car up the hill. I don't have any energy left to write.

Tony Earley

#2. Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

Tony Earley

#3. The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

Helen Vendler

#4. Create your inner peace to enjoy the endless beauties of life.

Debasish Mridha

#5. If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Deb Caletti

#6. How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?

Tony Earley

#7. The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like ... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.

Tony Earley

#8. The stories in 'Jim the Boy' are either made up or appropriated from some source other than my family. But the idea of a family telling stories to the kid, often to impart some kind of lesson, that's very familiar, and that's the way that I grew up.

Tony Earley

#9. I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

Tony Earley

#10. I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

Tony Earley

#11. In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

Marie Windsor

#12. I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

Carlton Cuse

#13. I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.

Tony Earley

#14. As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

Pablo Neruda

#15. Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Peter Porter