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Richard Russo
Richard Russo
American Novelist
Born: Jul 15, 1949
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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 each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. Richard Russo
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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. Richard Russo
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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. Richard Russo
Perceptive Abstraction Most Deals Even Sociology
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. Richard Russo
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Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
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I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is. Richard Russo
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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 it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. Richard Russo
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I can be glib and truthful all at once. Richard Russo
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. Richard Russo
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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 uncomfortably as I can. Richard Russo
Other Secret Books No Secret Make Comic Up Trying Closely Just Against Each Serious Rub
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 occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. Richard Russo
Life Book Try Hilarious Think Because Territory Occupy Very Heartbreaking Same Often Want Which Them Much Separate
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 are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them. Richard Russo
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If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. Richard Russo
Life Work Class Effects American Enduring American Life Theme
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 to me. Richard Russo
Me Comedy Think Would Would-Be Write Most Because Comic View Naturally Harder Things
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 and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. Richard Russo
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. Richard Russo
Fool Rare Out Delighted Nobody How Movie Turned
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. Richard Russo
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels. Richard Russo
First Enormous Read Get Novels Number
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 frequently hilarious. Richard Russo
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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? Richard Russo
Reward Made Everything Cary Grant Someone Charming Having Having Fun Never He Primarily Look Because Won Effortless Suspect Being Grant Fun Why Oscar
Truth be told, 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 be entertained. They want to be comforted. Richard Russo
Truth Man Experience People Though Entertained Entertaining Easy Most Comforted Been Want
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. Richard Russo
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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. Richard Russo
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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. Richard Russo
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