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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.

Richard Russo

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.
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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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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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To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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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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What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
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It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.
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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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