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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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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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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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One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
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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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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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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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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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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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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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