Be good Quote by Richard Russo

“To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible…

— Richard Russo

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about…

— Michael Flynn

“He cared nothing for art, music and books. He had no hobbies or diversions, not even a passing interest in gambling and the games…

— John R. O'Donnell

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has given me…

— Dag Solstad

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

“Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to…

— Henry James

“One important thing was not to forget what he hoped to achieve in life. Another important thing was not to confuse a romantic picture…

— Lydia Davis

“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when…

— Henry James