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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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Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
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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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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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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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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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