List of Richard Russo Quotes

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Richard Russo
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He looks like he could be taken in a fight. not by me, but by somebody. not anyone in humanities, probably.
Taken Fighting Humanity
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. here's another who's never going to write well again.
Writing Fiction Assuming
I'll tell you one thing, though. it's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.
Disappointment Good Woman Terrible
To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.
Littles Painting Surprise
As i drift back into sleep, i can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. to weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. it's as close as we get to god in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. and then back to sleep we go.
Sleep Thinking Two
To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
Lying Reason Fallacy
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
Sacrifice Compromise Companionship
You just kind of have faith. if that sounds kind of mystical, it's because i really don't know how it works, but i trust that it does. i try to write the way i read, in order to find out what happens next.
Faith Writing Order
"if you paid me for work," continued max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "i wouldn't have to feel worthless. there's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. you paid me, i'd have some dignity." now it was mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "i think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, dad."
Dad Men Thinking
Structure is one of the things that i always hope will reveal itself to me.
Structure
To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.
Heart Kissing And Love
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.
Simple Men Decision
  • Born: July 15, 1949
  • Occupation: Novelist
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