Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
Richard Russo
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Physical
Conversation
Bookstores
Like
Longest
World
Libraries
Thrilling
Manifestation
Library
Wide
More quotes by Richard Russo
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
Richard Russo
I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
Richard Russo
Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
Richard Russo
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
Richard Russo
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
Richard Russo
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
Richard Russo
Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
Richard Russo
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
Richard Russo
I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
Richard Russo
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
Richard Russo
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
Richard Russo
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
Richard Russo
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
Richard Russo
They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
Richard Russo
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
Richard Russo
I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
Richard Russo
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.
Richard Russo
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Richard Russo
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.
Richard Russo
I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
Richard Russo
