Best Richard Russo Quotes
- I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often… Book
- I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to… Behave
- I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they… Attempt
- 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… Appearing
- Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming? Cary
- 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 got… Continued
- 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… Book
- A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. Envisioned
- America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves. America
- Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. Abstraction
- HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation… Ask
- I can be glib and truthful all at once. All
- I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland. America
- I get and read an enormous number of first novels. Enormous
- I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is. Beauty
- I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry. All
- I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally… Comedy
- I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. Anybody
- I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. Delighted
- I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. Class
- If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. American
- If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. Comedy
- It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and… Book
- Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. Efficiently
- Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view. Child
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