Richard Russo
Richard Russo
Richard Russois an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 July 1949
CountryUnited States of America
feelings library ifs
I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.
growing-up kids parent
The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.
writing thinking risk
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
travel home interesting
What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.
thinking people cost
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
graduation be-kind tire
Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.
library world bookstores
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
world sin this-world
There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
doors waiting
I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
sleep people brain
Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?
feelings barrels crabs
Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
summer memories kissing
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.
heart people desire
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
simple what-if new-friendship
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?