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Richard Russo Quotes
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. Theyll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. - Richard Russo Quotes
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, youd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. - Richard Russo Quotes
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. - Richard Russo Quotes
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned. - Richard Russo Quotes
I can be glib and truthful all at once. - Richard Russo Quotes
I dont think theres a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because Ive got other stories to tell. - Richard Russo Quotes
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I dont have a lot of sympathy for because Im just going to be with them too long. - Richard Russo Quotes
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked? - Richard Russo Quotes
I read pretty voraciously. If its good, I dont care what it is. - Richard Russo Quotes
I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry. - Richard Russo Quotes
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. - Richard Russo Quotes
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me. - Richard Russo Quotes
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. - Richard Russo Quotes
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybodys fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. - Richard Russo Quotes
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. - Richard Russo Quotes
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. Its always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them arent any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. - Richard Russo Quotes
Im delighted by how Nobodys Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. - Richard Russo Quotes
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they dont mean to. - Richard Russo Quotes
If theres an enduring theme in my work, its probably the effects of class on American life. - Richard Russo Quotes
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill whats funny in the joke. - Richard Russo Quotes
Its no secret that in my books Im trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can. - Richard Russo Quotes
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. Theyre about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels arent necessarily about that. - Richard Russo Quotes
My books are elegiac in the sense that theyre odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. - Richard Russo Quotes
People often ask me how I make things funny. I dont make things funny. - Richard Russo Quotes
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, its almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. - Richard Russo Quotes
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. - Richard Russo Quotes
Ultimately, your theme will find you. You dont have to go looking for it. - Richard Russo Quotes
Usually by the time I finish a book tour Ive just about had it with the book. - Richard Russo Quotes
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that Im not simply taking dictation. - Richard Russo Quotes
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And thats what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. - Richard Russo Quotes
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