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
Richard Russo quotes about
experience people though truth
Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
expression people use
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?
mistake people loyal
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
doors waiting
I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
library world bookstores
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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.
regret way world
I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?
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.
scary leaving easier
They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,
past focus odd
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
errors stories way
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.
together scene novel
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.