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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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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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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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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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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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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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Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?
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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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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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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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I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.
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To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.
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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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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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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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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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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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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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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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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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