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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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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
Everything
Breath
Take
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Neighbor
Smart
Crafted
Safe
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Steve
Funny
Neighbors
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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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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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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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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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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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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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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.
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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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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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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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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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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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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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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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