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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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Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.
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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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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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To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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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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You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
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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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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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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Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.
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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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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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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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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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