Richard Russo Quotes

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

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• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • War
  • Tragedy

• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • She
  • More
  • Been

• One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Hate

• But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • God
  • Cold

• I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Pretty
  • Negative
  • Digital

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Change
  • Flower

• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

  Nas
  • New York
  • Brave
  • Hip Hop

• We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • See
  • Perception
  • Conscious

• Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Same
  • Middle
  • Exposure

• First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children

• do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Rest

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• It is precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Moments

• I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.

  

  Andy Murray

• I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called 'Bunheads' on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I'm a dancer in a real life.

  

  Emma Dumont
  • Life
  • Real
  • Family

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Learning

• For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

  

  Rosecrans Baldwin
  • Eperience
  • Culture
  • Traveling

• You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

  

  Harvey Korman
  • Secret
  • Characters
  • Conflict

• You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

  

  Richard Russo
  • Thoughts
  • Characters
  • Interested