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Richard Russo
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"I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Humor
"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don’t have a lot of sympathy for because I’m just going to be with them too long."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Sympathy
"If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what’s funny in the joke."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Funny
"You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it’s because I really don’t know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Faith
"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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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Movies
"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."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Experience
"My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired."
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Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Dad
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