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Richard Russo Quotes

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? and that’s what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation Picture Quote #1

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Steve Yarbrough’s Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it’s everything a novel should be Picture Quote #1

If there’s an enduring theme in my work, it’s probably the effects of class on American life Picture Quote #1

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don’t take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

They’re around back, she calls down when Julie and I get outPlanning their strategy. Good for them, I say, confident that no strategy that isn’t grounded in chaos theory is likely to work against a man like me Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what’s funny in the joke Picture Quote #1

I’m not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it’s been my experience that most people don’t want to be entertained. They want to be comforted Picture Quote #1

I just have this feeling that if it weren’t for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer Picture Quote #1

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling Picture Quote #1

I get and read an enormous number of first novels Picture Quote #1

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Not everyone writes well from a child’s point of view Picture Quote #1

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny Picture Quote #1

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart? Picture Quote #1

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise Picture Quote #1

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things Picture Quote #1

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake Picture Quote #1

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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original Picture Quote #1

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, Picture Quote #1

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece Picture Quote #1

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny Picture Quote #1

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke Picture Quote #1

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry Picture Quote #1

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What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? and that’s what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation (Richard Russo Quotes) Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it. (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, you’d be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets (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 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 (Richard Russo Quotes) 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 (Richard Russo Quotes) Steve Yarbrough’s Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it’s everything a novel should be (Richard Russo Quotes) If there’s an enduring theme in my work, it’s probably the effects of class on American life. (Richard Russo Quotes) And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don’t take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again. (Richard Russo Quotes) 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. (Richard Russo Quotes) They’re around back, she calls down when Julie and I get outPlanning their strategy. Good for them, I say, confident that no strategy that isn’t grounded in chaos theory is likely to work against a man like me. (Richard Russo Quotes) 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. (Richard Russo Quotes) It’s possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated. (Richard Russo Quotes) If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what’s funny in the joke (Richard Russo Quotes) I’m not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it’s been my experience that most people don’t want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. (Richard Russo Quotes) I just have this feeling that if it weren’t for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer. (Richard Russo Quotes) The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. (Richard Russo Quotes) I get and read an enormous number of first novels (Richard Russo Quotes) Not everyone writes well from a child’s point of view (Richard Russo Quotes) People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny (Richard Russo Quotes) Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart? (Richard Russo Quotes) In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise (Richard Russo Quotes) Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things (Richard Russo Quotes) People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake (Richard Russo Quotes) There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original (Richard Russo Quotes) They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, (Richard Russo Quotes) Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece (Richard Russo Quotes) People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny (Richard Russo Quotes) If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke (Richard Russo Quotes) I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry (Richard Russo Quotes)

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