Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Art 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
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk. — Richard Yates 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 Copy Share Image
“They knew what forgiveness was; they were willing to take him for better or worse; they loved him.” — Richard Yates Forgiveness 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 Copy Share Image
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort. — Richard Yates Ability Copy Share Image
if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be… — Richard Yates Alone Copy Share Image
“He was big and sturdy, with a heavy jaw and a voice that made her want to curl up and ride in… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want — Richard Yates 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
...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious… — Richard Yates Failure Copy Share Image
“Rachel became slowly aware now, even while talking and listening to her own voice, that there might well be something universal about… — Richard Yates Mother Copy Share Image
“For a year she found an exquisite pain - almost pleasure - in facing the world as if she didn't care. Look… — Richard Yates Coping Copy Share Image
Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x… — Richard Yates Business Copy Share Image
“He was happy enough to stay in this jumbled, lively place where the drinks were cheap and the band was loud and… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Because he was closer to her here than in the office, and less shy than in the car, he could see clearly… — Richard Yates Flirtation 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
When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“He turned off all the hot water and turned up the cold, a thing he hadn’t done in years. The shock of… — Richard Yates 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
“Proving, proving; and for no other reason than that he was married to a woman who had somehow managed to put him… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“All her life, from the time she was eight or nine years old, Gloria had relied on a neat, nearly automatic little… — Richard Yates Life 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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“i mean talk about decadence," he declared, "how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country's probably the… — Richard Yates Community Copy Share Image
“In the East, he then believed, a man went to college not for vocational training but in disciplined search for wisdom and… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“I need a job; okay. Is that any reason why the job I get has to louse me up? Look. All I… — Richard Yates Making money Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really… — Richard Yates Buying a house Copy Share Image
