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I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Richard Russo

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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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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
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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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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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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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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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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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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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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
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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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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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