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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

Richard Russo

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Mince
Masterpiece
Ruins
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Beautiful

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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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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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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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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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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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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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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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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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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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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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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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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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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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The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.
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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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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?
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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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