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Richard Russo Inspirational Quotes (58)

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America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.
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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.
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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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.
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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
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I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
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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.
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When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
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Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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