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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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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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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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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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I can be glib and truthful all 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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I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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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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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One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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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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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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What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
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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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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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