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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.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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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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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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
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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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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.
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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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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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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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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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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
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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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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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