“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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 Image
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“There have been times," Father Mark admitted, "when I feared that God would turn out to be like my maternal grandmother [...]… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Slow, tick decides. Thinks happen slow. she isn't quite sure why this understanding of the world's movement should be important, but she… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“And so began my final stage of my boyhood in Mohawk. Later, as an adult, I would return from time to time.… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“she’d come to believe life was like that: you could enjoy almost anything if you gave it enough time.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“It’s not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you’ve given birth to something that will… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“...diverting one's attention from the past was not the same as envisioning and embarking upon a future. On the other hand, if… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“It was hard to imagine him in love. I knew that he and my mother must have once felt passion, since that… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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, because I've… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
