Richard Russo Quotes

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

What writing does is to reveal.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

True understanding is the spur of genius

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.