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I can be glib and truthful all at once.

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Glib
Truthful

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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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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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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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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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Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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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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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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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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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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The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.
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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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