Richard Russo
Richard Russo
Richard Russois an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 July 1949
CountryUnited States of America
Richard Russo quotes about
numbers firsts enormous
I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
funny-things people ask-me
People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
teacher retirement teaching
Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.
judging ability capability
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?
destiny cities people
People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.
fool delighted
I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
stay-strong hbo people
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 is earned.
sociology deals sociological
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
sympathy book writing
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 for because I'm just going to be with them too long.
disappointment good-woman terrible
I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.
answers substitutes
...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
taken fighting humanity
He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.
choices possibility right-thing-to-say
The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.
simple men decision
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.