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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
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Johnstown
New York
Glib
Truthful

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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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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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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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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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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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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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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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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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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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Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.
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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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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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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?
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