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 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?
mistake people loyal
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
expression people use
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?
pain simple use
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
children men parent
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.
life opportunity another-chance
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.