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I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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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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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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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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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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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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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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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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Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.
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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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 think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
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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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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
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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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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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