Quotes by : Richard Yates

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

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

Don't worry, I can't be bothered! You're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you! You're not worth....

So it hadn’t been wrong or dishonest of her to say no this morning, when he asked if she hated him,....

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

He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized....

He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come....

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

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....