“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
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all… — Richard Yates Acting Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seemed that he'd said six or eight funny things in his life, and that what passed for his sense of… — Richard Yates Funny 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
“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
“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
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
“The movies were wonderful because they took you out of yourself, and at the same time they gave you a sense of… — Richard Yates Cinema Copy Share Image
“Then he was gone, and Prentice was alone in a silence that rang with all his shrill, unspoken words. He was so… — Richard Yates Mind 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
