I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health,… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be… — Richard Russo Copy Share
“That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out… — Richard Russo Copy Share
“Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply… — Richard Russo Copy Share
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most… — Richard Russo Copy Share
“Lucy, who apparently had no idea his girlfriend's father held him in such low regard, agreed with Noonan that he was pushing the envelope,… — Richard Russo Copy Share
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo Copy Share
“There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.” — Richard Russo Copy Share
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible… — Richard Russo Copy Share
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that… — Richard Russo Copy Share
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… — Richard Russo Copy Share
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? — Richard Russo Copy Share
“... Mr. Purty has cheered me up. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck,… — Richard Russo Copy Share
“So what? Few men, Miles reflected, lived so comfortably within the confines of a two.word personal philosophy.” — Richard Russo Copy Share
