“It's amazing what we believe if we hear it at the right time," Harold said.” — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people. — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“A man who loves his mother too much is someone who can never love his wife enough.” — Adam Ross Marriage Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, if you ask someone to marry you and the person pukes, that's a sign.” — Adam Ross Ladies and gentlemen Copy Share Image
“The thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought.” — Adam Ross Fortune cookie Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.” — Adam Ross Age Copy Share Image
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“Of all the thoughts we think, it's only those that actually manifest themselves that seem significant. But the thoughts just before the… — Adam Ross Thought Copy Share Image
“It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was… — Adam Ross Happy marriage Copy Share Image
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“He closed his eyes, shook his head. If he could get her alone somewhere, somewhere completely private, he'd kill her. He would… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage… — Adam Ross Caution Copy Share Image
“I'm here for several reason, Mr. Pepin, first of all for aid. When something tragic happens in our skies, we do our… — Adam Ross Plane Copy Share Image
“Everyone should be lucky enough to be loved for a long time. To know what that was like--to be loved and to… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no… — Adam Ross Anxiety Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of… — Adam Ross Art Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“We tell stories of other people's marriages, Detective Hastroll thought. We are experts in their parables and parabolas. Be can we tell… — Adam Ross Marriage Copy Share Image
Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place.… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Artistry Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Books Copy Share Image
“You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did,… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Books Copy Share Image
I play golf, but sometimes it's so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it,… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“The heart," he said, "is half criminal. The trick is to be vigilant. To keep your eyes open, so if you get… — Adam Ross Criminal Copy Share Image
“...in response to whatever Alice was struggling with, whatever had caused her to withdraw from him, he had chosen the arms of… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“Worse, he seemed as impassive as some of the killers he'd interrogated. That more than anything was what struck him. Men who… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“He was extremely short, five feet in heels, wearing a khaki sport coat and blue jeans. His brown hair, with long straight… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world… — Adam Ross Book Copy Share Image
The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all… — Adam Ross Books Copy Share Image
'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
