Richard Russo Quotes

Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll kee...

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not ...

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don'...

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not ...

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or...

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the co...

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home...

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply...

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find caree...

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience tha...

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued ...

What did I think? Right then I was thinking about my father, specifically his habit of treating ever...

Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that...

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

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, an...

Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you marri...

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of ...

Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagine...

He’d meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He’d also meant to learn to trust him...

...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and...

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed hi...

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be vi...

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed hi...

Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulat...

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despit...

Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rh...

- You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wi...

It’s not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you’ve given birth...

Nor do I want the woman that I’m married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doin...

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer ...

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible,...