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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."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Health
"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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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Humor
"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."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Nature
"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."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Relationship
"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don’t make things funny."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Funny
"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Hope
"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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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Home
"I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody’s fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Nature
"My books are elegiac in the sense that they’re odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Imagination
"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."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Famous
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