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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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