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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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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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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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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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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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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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To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
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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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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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By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.
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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
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