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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.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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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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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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America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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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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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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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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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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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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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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People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
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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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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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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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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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