Russell Hoban

Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you…

— Russell Hoban

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the…

— Russell Hoban

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go…

— Russell Hoban

“I had a salad. If I were to say that today's tomatoes were an index of the decline of Western man I…

— Russell Hoban

“What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to…

— Russell Hoban

“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”

— Russell Hoban

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have…

— Russell Hoban

“Mark you that and noat you wel.”

— Russell Hoban

“Seed of the little Seed of the wyld Seed of the berning is Hart of the chyld . . . Out goes…

— Russell Hoban

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're…

— Russell Hoban

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking…

— Russell Hoban

“Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority…

— Russell Hoban

When I write a book, I don't have a plan or an outline. The characters move the action, and the action develops…

— Russell Hoban

“Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking…

— Russell Hoban

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

— Russell Hoban

“The worl is ful of things waiting to happen. Thats the meat and boan of it right there. You myt think you…

— Russell Hoban

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look…

— Russell Hoban

“What is all this talk of elephants and seals?' asked Frog. 'It's nonsense', said the father, 'and yet it's not the child's…

— Russell Hoban

“(Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...) 'How can the wind have a job?' asked Frances.…

— Russell Hoban

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

— Russell Hoban

“It was the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and warmly human in a film with Peter Ustinov and…

— Russell Hoban

“Looking at them words going down on this paper right this minim I know there aint no such thing there aint no…

— Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response,…

— Russell Hoban

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

— Russell Hoban

“I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT.…

— Russell Hoban