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Richard Russo quotes: In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.
Richard Russo quotes: I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is. I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
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. 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: Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
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. 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: America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves. America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.
Richard Russo quotes: People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny. People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
Richard Russo quotes: Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man. Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.
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. 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: They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving, They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,
Richard Russo quotes: Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
Richard Russo quotes: You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me. You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me.
Richard Russo quotes: There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original. There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
Richard Russo quotes: Because if you were God, it stood to reason your real enemy would be boredom. Sully Because if you were God, it stood to reason your real enemy would be boredom. Sully
Richard Russo quotes: People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Richard Russo quotes: If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
Richard Russo quotes: Grace believed that those who could see their duty clearly were required by God to do the heavy lifting for the morally blind. Where Grace believed that those who could see their duty clearly were required by God to do the heavy lifting for the morally blind. Where
Richard Russo quotes: Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece. Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.
Richard Russo quotes: Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it. Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
Richard Russo quotes: Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things. Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
Richard Russo quotes: He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company. He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company.
Richard Russo quotes: - You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper. - You get more misanthropic every day.
- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.
Richard Russo quotes: Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example? Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Richard Russo quotes: Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup. Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup.
Richard Russo quotes: She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time. She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time.
Richard Russo quotes: I get and read an enormous number of first novels. I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
Richard Russo quotes: Because - and don't let anybody tell you different - novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Because - and don't let anybody tell you different - novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.
Richard Russo quotes: When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else. When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.
Richard Russo quotes: Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
Richard Russo quotes: 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? 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 quotes: Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart? Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
Richard Russo quotes: Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility? Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?
Richard Russo quotes: Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?Sully: Not often. Now and then. Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?
Sully: Not often. Now and then.
Richard Russo quotes: Life may be a grand folly, as you say, but it is harder to appriciate the joke when you're always the butt of it. Life may be a grand folly, as you say, but it is harder to appriciate the joke when you're always the butt of it.
Richard Russo quotes: So what? Few men, Miles reflected, lived so comfortably within the confines of a two.word personal philosophy. So what? Few men, Miles reflected, lived so comfortably within the confines of a two.word personal philosophy.
Richard Russo quotes: Really? When? Had all his material become threadbare? After thirty years of marriage, were you supposed to come up with new stuff all the time? Really? When? Had all his material become threadbare? After thirty years of marriage, were you supposed to come up with new stuff all the time?
Richard Russo quotes: By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference. By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference.
Richard Russo quotes: Begin laughing too, though they have no idea why. Which Begin laughing too, though they have no idea why. Which
Richard Russo quotes: Straight Man: But my daughter belongs to a talk show generation that seems to be losing the ability to discriminate between public and private woes. Straight Man: But my daughter belongs to a talk show generation that seems to be losing the ability to discriminate between public and private woes.
Richard Russo quotes: To expect reason is where the fallacy lies. To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
Richard Russo quotes: He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably. He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.
Richard Russo quotes: I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman. I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.
Richard Russo quotes: In this instance, she understood completely what the endorsement of a fool was worth. In this instance, she understood completely what the endorsement of a fool was worth.
Richard Russo quotes: You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand? You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?
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. 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: Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming. Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming.
Richard Russo quotes: The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending. The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.
Richard Russo quotes: I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
Richard Russo quotes: She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line. She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.
Richard Russo quotes: You've become a clever man. You've become a clever man.
Richard Russo quotes: I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry. I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
Richard Russo quotes: It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can. It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
Richard Russo quotes: ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the
Richard Russo quotes: Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money. Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.
Richard Russo quotes: Since turning in his resignation, he'd been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He Since turning in his resignation, he'd been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He
Richard Russo quotes: Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it. Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
Richard Russo quotes: What an absolute folly love was. Talk about a flawed concept. What an absolute folly love was. Talk about a flawed concept.
Richard Russo quotes: Come sit on my lap. I want to hear all about your sexual harassment lunch. -Hank to his secretary, Rachel Come sit on my lap. I want to hear all about your sexual harassment lunch.
-Hank to his secretary, Rachel
Richard Russo quotes: People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny. People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.
Richard Russo quotes: It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it. It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.
Richard Russo quotes: We wear the chains we forge in life, We wear the chains we forge in life,
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. 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: Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection. Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
Richard Russo quotes: Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around. Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.
Richard Russo quotes: Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
Richard Russo quotes: The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness. The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.
Richard Russo quotes: Aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer. Aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
Richard Russo quotes: Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
Richard Russo quotes: Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel. Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
Richard Russo quotes: People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake. People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
Richard Russo quotes: Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart. Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
Richard Russo quotes: His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing. His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing.
Richard Russo quotes: If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
Richard Russo quotes: She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched. She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched.
Richard Russo quotes: If making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another. If making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another.
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. 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: What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
Richard Russo quotes: Amazing, isn't it, when you think about it, how the world keeps on turning, no matter how fucked up things get?" In Amazing, isn't it, when you think about it, how the world keeps on turning, no matter how fucked up things get?" In
Richard Russo quotes: I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
Richard Russo quotes: You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out. You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out.
Richard Russo quotes: My mother has always been the sort of woman whose emotional state can be intuited from the volume at which she rattles kitchen utensils. My mother has always been the sort of woman whose emotional state can be intuited from the volume at which she rattles kitchen utensils.
Richard Russo quotes: Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component. Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.
Richard Russo quotes: old textile mill, which was in the process of being old textile mill, which was in the process of being
Richard Russo quotes: Writers are people who put pen to paper every day. Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.
Richard Russo quotes: Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
Richard Russo quotes: I can be glib and truthful all at once. I can be glib and truthful all at once.
Richard Russo quotes: (God) seemed to know everything that was in her heart and to understand that nothing dwelt there that wasn't absolutely necessary to her survival. (God) seemed to know everything that was in her heart and to understand that nothing dwelt there that wasn't absolutely necessary to her survival.
Richard Russo quotes: No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided. No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided.
Richard Russo quotes: The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill. The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.
Richard Russo quotes: Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said? Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?
Richard Russo quotes: You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
Richard Russo quotes: Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it? Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it?
Richard Russo quotes: people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It
Richard Russo quotes: Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view. Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.
Richard Russo quotes: ... a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect. ... a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.
Richard Russo quotes: 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. 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 quotes: witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility. witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility.
Richard Russo quotes: I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
Richard Russo quotes: A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
Richard Russo quotes: Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward, Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward,

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