Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

— Richard Russo

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

— Richard Russo

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

— Richard Russo

“people are forever confusing will with power,”

— Richard Russo

“You've become a clever man.”

— Richard Russo

“…imagination without energy remains inert...”

— Richard Russo

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

— Richard Russo

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

— Richard Russo

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

— Richard Russo

Ultimately, your # theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

— Richard Russo

I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

— Richard Russo

“Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.”

— Richard Russo

“In this instance, she understood completely what the endorsement of a fool was worth.”

— Richard Russo

“…a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.”

— Richard Russo

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

— Richard Russo

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

— Richard Russo

“I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely…

— Richard Russo

“Straight Man: "But my daughter belongs to a talk show generation that seems to be losing the ability to discriminate between public…

— Richard Russo

Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness…

— Richard Russo

“They're around back," she calls down when Julie and I get out. "Planning their strategy." "Good for them," I say, confident that…

— Richard Russo

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but…

— Richard Russo

“The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.”

— Richard Russo

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I…

— Richard Russo

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to…

— 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

“The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and…

— 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

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My…

— Richard Russo

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that…

— 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

“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

“The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those…

— Richard Russo

“There have been times," Father Mark admitted, "when I feared that God would turn out to be like my maternal grandmother [...]…

— Richard Russo

“And so began my final stage of my boyhood in Mohawk. Later, as an adult, I would return from time to time.…

— Richard Russo

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was…

— Richard Russo

“In matters of affection, the rules of engagement at Empire High were detailed yet unambiguous, an extension of procedures established in junior…

— Richard Russo

“It pleased him to imagine God as someone like his mother, someone beleagured by too many responsibilities, too dog-tired to monitor an…

— Richard Russo

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

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

“At the center of the bouquet is a monstrous peony, probably purchased on sale at the supermarket. By Tuesday its curling petals…

— Richard Russo