Richard Russo
Born: 01-01-1949
Richard Russo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist known for his vivid portrayal of small-town life. Born in 1949 in Johnstown, New York, Russo draws inspiration from his upbringing in Gloversville. He is celebrated for novels like "Empire Falls" and "Nobody's Fool," which blend humor and pathos. Russo's keen insights into human nature and complex characters have earned him a respected place in contemporary literature.
Book summaries for books written by Richard Russo
Quotes
The heart has its own hieroglyphics; the brain's logic are only power.
Sometimes your whole life can be decided by one fleeting moment.
People will have exits; it's the nature of the game.
Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.
The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain.
Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.
Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you'd never experienced downs?
Fear of the unknown should never be a deterrent to opening a shutter.
Threatened people sometimes find a new idea to be threatening.
There's a limit to what people will put up with, and I think we forget that. There's a point at which even the most meek and forgiving of people will say enough is enough.
You never know what you'll be going home to at the end of the day. Some days are diamond, some days are rocks.
You know, everyone makes a big deal about the six degrees of separation, but I think the degrees of connection are even smaller.