Mary Doria Russell quotes

The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch. (Mary Doria Russell)
Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher! View quote
Mary Doria Russell
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking? View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
... I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy. (Mary Doria Russell)
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.' View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear. View quote
Mary Doria Russell
Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters. View quote
Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell

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Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: August 19, 1950
Quotes count: 18
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