Quotes about Richard Russo

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to...

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People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even...

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Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present....

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It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the...

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If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on...

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If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and...

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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my...

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I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same...

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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow...

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