Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health,… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be… — Richard Russo Copy Share
“That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out… — Richard Russo Copy Share
“Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply… — Richard Russo Copy Share
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most… — Richard Russo Copy Share
“Lucy, who apparently had no idea his girlfriend's father held him in such low regard, agreed with Noonan that he was pushing the envelope,… — Richard Russo Copy Share
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.” — Richard Russo Copy Share
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible… — Richard Russo Copy Share
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that… — Richard Russo Copy Share
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've… — Richard Russo Copy Share
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? — Richard Russo Copy Share
“... Mr. Purty has cheered me up. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck,… — Richard Russo Copy Share
“So what? Few men, Miles reflected, lived so comfortably within the confines of a two.word personal philosophy.” — Richard Russo Copy Share
