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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?

Richard Russo

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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
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Johnstown
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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'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 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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... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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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 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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To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
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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.
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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
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They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.
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