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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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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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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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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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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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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
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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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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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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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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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Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
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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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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
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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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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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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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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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