People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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… — 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.… — 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 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
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than… — 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
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park,… — 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
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
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
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. — 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
Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with… — 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
