...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“...the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in… — 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
“Because the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Because the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“My mother had more than once remarked that my father was one of the war's casualties, that the Sam Hall who came… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Tick's strategy for dealing with lying adults is to say nothing and watch thee lies swell and constrict in their throats. when… — 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
