Quotes by : Richard Yates

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger....

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

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that....

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very,....

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being.....

How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and....

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and....