Richard Russo

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

— Richard Russo

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

— Richard Russo

“I don't now how you could not kid about love and still claim to have a sense of humor”

— Richard Russo

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

— Richard Russo

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

— Richard Russo

“probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.”

— Richard Russo

...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

— Richard Russo

“La verdad no sirve como sustituto de una buena respuesta.”

— Richard Russo

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

— Richard Russo

“What an absolute folly love was. Talk about a flawed concept.”

— Richard Russo

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

— 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

“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.”

— Richard Russo

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

“My mother has always been the sort of woman whose emotional state can be intuited from the volume at which she rattles…

— Richard Russo

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

— Richard Russo

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally…

— 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

“The drive back to the Mid-fucking-west was always brutal, his parents barely speaking to each other, as if suddenly recalling last year's…

— Richard Russo

“These are not men of great imagination, but one can hardly blame them for not being prepared for this particular contingency, the…

— Richard Russo

“Griffin’s mother loathed grading papers, too, of course. Who didn’t? But she was meticulous about correcting errors, offering style and content suggestions…

— Richard Russo

“Whereas some people’s attitude suggested that perhaps they knew something you didn’t, Mrs. Whiting’s implied that she knew everything you didn’t. She…

— Richard Russo

“...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

“Just because things happen slow doesn't mean you'll be ready for them. If they happened fast, you'd be alert for all kinds…

— Richard Russo

“Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could…

— Richard Russo

“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

“For fairness and loyalty, however important to the head, were issues that could seldom be squared in the human heart, at the…

— 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

“He's such a good man," my mother said. "How I wish I loved him." "He's certainly crazy about you," I said, trying…

— Richard Russo

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Okay, granted, there's a lot of willful blindness out there, more than enough to go around, and failures of imagination abound as…

— Richard Russo

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

— Richard Russo

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

— Richard Russo

“The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.”

— Richard Russo

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,

— Richard Russo

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

— Richard Russo