People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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
“He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. — 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 now how you could not kid about love and still claim to have a sense of humor” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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, because I've… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
