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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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Richard Russo
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 15
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Johnstown
New York
People
Anybody
Sleep
Brain
Half
Ever
Rated
Need
Recommended
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Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
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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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Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
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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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