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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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Screenwriter
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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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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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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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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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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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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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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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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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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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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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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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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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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