Quote by Richard Russo Download Open image ““…a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.”” — Richard Russo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's in the misery of some unnamed slum that the next killer virus will emerge.” — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
“Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The people who wrote viruses knew they had to stay one step ahead; they developed ways to make their viruses more difficult to detect.” — Peter H. Gregory Copy Share Image
“The other naturally occurring viruses, like ebola, are not durable enough to generate a runaway epidemic.” — Martin J. Rees Copy Share Image
“virus writers lack the basic social and moral values and the “well-formed consciousness” that are the hallmarks of civilized modern societies.” — Peter H. Gregory Copy Share Image
“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.” — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
“An epidemic worse than any plague that humankind has ever seen has been raging for centuries. It is the “don’t want” epidemic.” — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Lucy, who apparently had no idea his girlfriend's father held him in such low regard, agreed with Noonan that he was pushing the envelope, behaviorwise. Still, he was genuinely fond of the man and didn't want to believe there was anything seriously wrong. After all, he argued, wasn't Mr. Berg's lunacy born of genius? Even though Lucy loved and defended… — Richard Russo Copy Share
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image