Richard-yates Quote by Blake Bailey

“One of the more curious paradoxes of Yates’s nature was his almost archaic courtliness toward women on the one hand, and his lifelong tendency…

— Blake Bailey

“Largely to spare his feelings, she’d spoken in rather vague terms about wanting to “find herself,” and Yates concluded that she’d become a “womens’-libbing…

— Blake Bailey

“Charlotte Yates loved humanity with all her heart, but she really had to draw the line at individuals. For the most part they were…

— Magnus Flyte

“It was the chief thing he knew about women: that they could always be calmed down by the fact, or even by the prospect,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them…

— Jill Shalvis

“It was her personal view that people who are overly choosy about the drinks they order in a bar tend to be sexually bland.…

— Haruki Murakami

“fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce…

— Gail Carriger

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for…

— Matthew Pearl

“a drunk did not expect the bottle to love him back,and she only wished to drink him in whenever she could.”

— Sherry Thomas

“He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“A bevy of lovely ladies was in attendance, not one among them failing to make herself pleasant to Royce. He bore it all with…

— Josie Litton

“Yates’s determinism, like Flaubert’s, was a matter of knowing his characters well enough to know their fates, and making the reader see this, too.…

— Blake Bailey