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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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Johnstown
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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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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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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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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
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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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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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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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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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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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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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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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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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