Famous Quotes

"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."

Richard Russo on Health

More quotes about Health

• "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."

  Buddha on Health

• "The wish for healing has always been half of health."

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Health

• "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

  Tom Stoppard on Health

• "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

  John Muir on Health

• "'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes."

  Henry David Thoreau on Health

More quotes by Richard Russo

• "My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired."

• "Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted."

• "You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."

• "HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."

• "People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."