What did Richard Russo mean by: Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it. - Richard Russo Author · USA Copy
+ When you don’t know what to do, try something; if that doesn’t work, try something else. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Russo, 0 - Richard Russo Author · USA
+ If there’s an enduring theme in my work, it’s probably the effects of class on American life. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Russo, Class, Endure, 0 - Richard Russo Author · USA
+ They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Russo, Easier, Leaving, Scary, 0 - Richard Russo Author · USA
+ To expect reason is where the fallacy lies. Feraz Zeid, June 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Richard Russo, Lying, 0 - Richard Russo Author · USA
+ People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Russo, Cities, Destiny, 0 - Richard Russo Author · USA
+ I read pretty voraciously. If it’s good, I don’t care what it is. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Russo, Beauty, Care, 0 - Richard Russo Author · USA
+ Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart? Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Russo, Heart, Leap, 0 - Richard Russo Author · USA
+ If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what’s funny in the joke. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Russo, Comedy, Jokes, 0 - Richard Russo Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France