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Writing Quotes by Richard Russo
- By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be…
- 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…
- I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels…
- When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
- Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.
- 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.
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