Best Richard Russo Sayings
- People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny. Cities
- A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've… Ago
- If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between… Along
- 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. Assumes
- After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become… All
- I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman. Disappointment
- To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been… Bad
- As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence,… Always Incomplete
- Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this… Been
- Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said? Ever Noticed
- Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves.… Al
- To expect reason is where the fallacy lies. Expect
- The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild… Along
- I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the… Been
- In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. All
- And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get… Another Chance
- If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,… Ago
- I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for. Door
- He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting… Along
- To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as… Affection
- What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual… Became
- One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like… Age
- The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong,… Choice
- Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things. Different Things
- People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake. Habit
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