Quotes by Tony Earley - Page 1

I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.
Tony Earley / Novelist
Pay Attention
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Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.
Tony Earley / Novelist
Want
Writing
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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 / Novelist
Ghost
Stories
Thinking
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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 / Novelist
Pushing
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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 / Novelist
Ten
Years
Years Ago
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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 / Novelist
Ghost
Good Home Long
Fred
Hunt
Long Line
Panther
Serial
Uncle
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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 / Novelist
First Thing
Shaved
The First Thing
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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 / Novelist
Familiar
Impart
Jim
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I think irony precludes really feeling deeply about anything. I just didn't want to be that kind of writer who found nothing that wasn't worth indictment. I admire Willa Cather so much because she was unafraid to have big feelings and put them on the page. I just want to be able to believe in things.
Tony Earley / Novelist
Admire
Indictment
Irony
Unafraid
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I think a big part of marriage is not going anywhere on those days you feel you really want to. It's like in the Barrier Islands. If you want to stay together, don't leave. I think just culturally - in the media, in movies, in books - we're trained to divorce when that first blush of sexual longing starts to fade. That's just where marriage starts.
Tony Earley / Novelist
Divorce
Longing
Anywhere
Barrier
Big Part
Blush
Fade
Sexual
Trained
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