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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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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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.
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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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Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
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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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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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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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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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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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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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