English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Richard Russo Quotes

Richard Russo quotes

American Novelist July 15, 1949

Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. Richard Russo
It’s not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you’ve given birth to something that will never see things the way you do, despite the fact that it is your living legacy, that it bears your name. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's..."
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. Richard Russo
But of course everything had conspired to spoil her entrance, which only went to prove what Janine already knew: that no matter how well you planned something, God always planned better. If He was feeling stingy that day and didn't want you to have some little thing you had your heart set on, then you weren't going to get it and that was all there was to it. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a..."
I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman. Richard Russo
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. Richard Russo
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did..."
He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had..."
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder..."
She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time. Richard Russo
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. Richard Russo
For Miles, one of the great mysteries of marriage was that you had to actually say things before you realized they were wrong. Because he'd been saying the wrong thing to Janine for so many years, he'd grown wary, testing most of his observations in the arena of his imagination before saying them out loud, but even then he was often wrong. Of course, the other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong,... Richard Russo
For people who dealt largely in dreams, his father was fond of observing, realtors were a surprisingly unromantic bunch, like card counters in a Vegas casino. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't..."
probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it. Richard Russo
Richard Russo quote: "So what? Few men, Miles reflected, lived so comfortably..."
So what? Few men, Miles reflected, lived so comfortably within the confines of a two. word personal philosophy. Richard Russo

Popular Author

Related Authors