“I grandi libri, come i grandi amici, devono essere condivisi.” — Richard Yates Amor Copy Share Image
Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around. — Richard Yates People Copy Share Image
“Why couldn't she stop talking? Did all lonely people have that problem?” — Richard Yates Lonely people Copy Share Image
“in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations” — Richard Yates Avoiding Copy Share Image
Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Art Copy Share Image
“Whoever said you can't love ridiculous things? God knows i love you, and you're the most ridiculous woman I ever met!” — Richard Yates God knows Copy Share Image
“Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their… — Richard Yates Happy life Copy Share Image
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life. — Richard Yates Fifty Copy Share Image
...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony. — Richard Yates Important Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart. — Richard Yates Crush Copy Share Image
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein… — Richard Yates Humans Copy Share Image
“Oh, Frank. Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?” — Richard Yates Art Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter: genuine clarity genuine… — Richard Yates Advice-for-writers Copy Share Image
“she had always been ready to take off the minute she happened to feel like it ("Don't talk to me that way,… — Richard Yates Heart Copy Share Image
“And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away -… — Richard Yates Drive Copy Share Image
“It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now… — Richard Yates Apology Copy Share Image
“The place had filled him with a sense of wisdom hovering just out of reach, of unspeakable grace prepared and waiting just… — Richard Yates Around the corner Copy Share Image
Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was… — Richard Yates Certain Copy Share Image
“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about… — Richard Yates Rachel Copy Share Image
He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate… — Richard Yates Illness Copy Share Image
“She quickly took a drink to hide her mouth. That mannerism had never changed: whenever Sarah was embarrassed, after she'd told a… — Richard Yates Mouth Copy Share Image
What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to… — Richard Yates Difficult Copy Share Image
“They could lie drowsing now under the sound of kindly voices in the living room, a sound whose intricately rhythmic rise and… — Richard Yates Cool places Copy Share Image
“Emily knew she was going to cry. She tried to avert it with a childhood trick that had sometimes worked before -… — Richard Yates Children Copy Share Image
“Her voice had been the only sound in the room for ten minutes or more, and it had been continuous. She seemed… — Richard Yates Drown Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an… — Richard Yates Death Copy Share Image
“It took Emily a long time to realize that Sarah was dead. Sometimes, waking from a dream of childhood filled with Sarah's… — Richard Yates Long time Copy Share Image
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized… — Richard Yates Cry Copy Share Image
“So it hadn’t been wrong or dishonest of her to say no this morning, when he asked if she hated him, any… — Richard Yates Dishonest Copy Share Image
“You still felt that life was passing you by? Sort of. I still had this idea that there was a whole world… — Richard Yates First time Copy Share Image
“I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as… — Richard Yates First time Copy Share Image
“Rachel came carefully downstairs one morning, in a dressing gown that wasn't quite clean, and stood at the brink of the living… — Richard Yates Friday morning Copy Share Image
“She was fifty-three years old and lonely and oppressed; why couldn't he let her have her illusions? That was what her wounded,… — Richard Yates Gaze Copy Share Image
“The only trouble at first was that one small, cold-sober part of her mind floated free of the rest of her; it… — Richard Yates Gaze Copy Share Image
“I want to retain my own identity. Therefore the thing I’m most anxious to avoid is any kind of work that can… — Richard Yates Making money Copy Share Image
“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the… — Richard Yates Affair Copy Share Image
