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" Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming? "
Richard Russo
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" I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry. "
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" If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. "
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" Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. "
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" About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. "
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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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" Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it. "
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" Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. "
Richard Russo
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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. "
Richard Russo
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" I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. "
Richard Russo
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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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" 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. "
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" I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland. "
Richard Russo
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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. "
Richard Russo
Good
Health
Think
" 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 don't mean to. "
Richard Russo
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" When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises. "
Richard Russo
Look
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" I can be glib and truthful all at once. "
Richard Russo
I Can
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" You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth. "
Richard Russo
You
Great
She
" People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny. "
Richard Russo
People
Funny
Ask
" If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. "
Richard Russo
Joke
Comedy
Funny
" You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. "
Richard Russo
Things
Much
Over
" Truth be told, 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
People
Easy
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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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People
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" 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. "
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" 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
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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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" 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
Thinking
Genuine
Horror
" America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves. "
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Losing
Lose
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" What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation. "
Richard Russo
Sometimes
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Me
" I get and read an enormous number of first novels. "
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