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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Johnstown
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Beautiful
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Ruins
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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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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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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
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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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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.
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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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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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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