E.S. Russell Quotes

Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.

I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

I would not let my children act when they are young!

You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.

Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.

I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.

I do think it [the Waitress] speaks in a positive way for women and it was surprising for me to see it for the first time as a movie all put together with music. I really liked it a lot.

I think I'm probably more passionate about acting now than when I was a kid. When I was young, I didn't know what I was doing.

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

Eating a cookie never feels strange. I am a big believer in food in general.

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would tell stories.

I tend to come home and eat a bowl of cereal. I'm not thinking about baking a pie when I'm off work.

I can make cookies and do easy stuff. Pies are very specific and hard to do well though.

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.

I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all.

I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.

If Quentin Tarantino is your writer-director then you're going to learn the words and your gonna learn why they're the words. You're gonna learn why they're the best words to say.

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.