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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.
Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
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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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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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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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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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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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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
Richard Russo
They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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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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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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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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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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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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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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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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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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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
Richard Russo
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.
Richard Russo
