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Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.
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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
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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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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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America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.
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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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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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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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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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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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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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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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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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