Quotes by : Richard Yates

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

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....

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....

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.....

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