Famous Richard Yates Quotes

  • Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence. – Richard Yates

    Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence.– Richard Yates

  • if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone. – Richard Yates

    if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.– Richard Yates

  • With their mother lying in a coma twenty miles away, they clung together drunkenly and wept for the loss of their father. – Richard Yates

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

  • He couldn’t even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive. – Richard Yates

    He couldn’t even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.– Richard Yates

  • Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? – Richard Yates

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