"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don’t make things funny." ― Richard Russo Topic(s): Funny More From Richard Russo "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." "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." "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." More In Funny "Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."― Joey Adams "It’s a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That’s sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn’t happen to me."― Joel Coen "I failed to make the chess team because of my height."― Woody Allen