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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.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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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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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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I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
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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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After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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