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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.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.
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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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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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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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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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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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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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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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