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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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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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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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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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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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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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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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I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.
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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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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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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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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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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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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'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
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