“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 Copy Share Image
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! — Richard Yates Books Copy Share Image
“There was probably nothing to be done about a woman like this. Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much… — Richard Yates Love Copy Share Image
“He had proved nothing, he had made no viable gesture of atonement, and he knew now that he probably never would. If… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Wish I didn't have to go to work tomorrow", he said. "Don't, then. Stay home." "No. I guess I've got to go.” — Richard Yates Stay Home Copy Share Image
“Oh, you’ll what? You’ll leave me? What’s that supposed to be—a threat or a promise?” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then… — Richard Yates Apologizing Copy Share Image
“The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.” — Richard Yates Emotion Copy Share Image
She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less… — Richard Yates Complicated Copy Share Image
“There was always a dim chance that the job could lead to employment on a real magazine, which might be fun; besides,… — Richard Yates Arts education Copy Share Image
“Why couldn't she stop talking? Did all lonely people have that problem?” — Richard Yates Lonely people Copy Share Image
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It… — Richard Yates Parenting Copy Share Image
