Quotes by : Richard Yates

Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things....

And Emily had yet to shed a single tear. It troubled her all the way back to the city, and she rode with....

I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead....

Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.“Synchronise....

You see? I don’t know what ‘mature’ means, either, and you could talk all night and I still wouldn’t....

The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to....

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power....

Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.....

As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine....

With their mother lying in a coma twenty miles away, they clung together drunkenly and wept for the loss....