Richard Russo

“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had…

— Richard Russo

“That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever…

— Richard Russo

“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

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and…

— Richard Russo

“Lucy, who apparently had no idea his girlfriend's father held him in such low regard, agreed with Noonan that he was pushing…

— 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

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…

— Richard Russo

“There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.”

— Richard Russo

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

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it.…

— Richard Russo

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

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

— Richard Russo

“Non basta una vita "One life isn't enough”

— Richard Russo

“... Mr. Purty has cheered me up. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red…

— Richard Russo

“So what? Few men, Miles reflected, lived so comfortably within the confines of a two.word personal philosophy.”

— Richard Russo

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

— Richard Russo

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun,…

— Richard Russo

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for…

— Richard Russo

“She never answers during the day," Max explained. "She lets her machine pick up." People like you are the reason other people…

— Richard Russo

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

— Richard Russo

If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food…

— Richard Russo

“Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you? Sully: Not often. Now and…

— Richard Russo

Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by…

— Richard Russo

“they were dreamers who felt no urgency about bringing their dreams to fruition.”

— Richard Russo

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer…

— Richard Russo