"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."
― Richard Russo
Topic(s):
Sympathy
More From Richard Russo
- "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."
- "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."
- "People often ask me how I make things funny. I don’t make things funny."
More In Sympathy
- "If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."― Oscar Wilde
- "Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children."― Michael Gove
- "I’m not looking for sympathy at all."― Arnold Schwarzenegger