“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.” ThinkingWorldWritingRiskAppearingDisingenuousWriting Humor Author:Richard Russo
“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 got other stories to tell.” ThinkingWorldStoriesMaterialsPrayingGood HealthShortage Author:Richard Russo
“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.” PeopleWorldHeartWholeDesireImpossibleEternalLogicWidePassagesMarbleDefiancePolishedPassage Of Time Author:Richard Russo
“As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.” ThinkingWorldI CanTwoSometimesWholeHelpingThreeUnderstandingSleepExistenceWonderfulEvidenceSimplicityThis LifeAwakeSandSecondsGrainFlashWonderful ThingsIncompleteGrains Of Sand Author:Richard Russo
“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?” IfsWorldSimpleNeededWhat IfNew FriendshipOne FriendSimple Words Author:Richard Russo
“There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.” WorldSinThis WorldOriginals Author:Richard Russo
“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?” WorldWayKnownRegretUnderstood Author:Richard Russo
“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.” WorldKidsGrowsParentGrowing UpGroupsSucceedDivided Author:Richard Russo
“Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?” WorldHeartLeapIntuitive Book:Empire Falls Source: Empire Falls
“Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.” WorldConversationLibraryWideManifestationThrillingBookstores Author:Richard Russo
