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
comedy ifs jokes
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
thinking stories world
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 other stories to tell.
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.
thinking mind stories
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
sociology deals sociological
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
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.
truthful i-can
I can be glib and truthful all at once.
thinking america london
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.
beauty care ifs
I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
writing thinking views
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.
thinking fiction aspect
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
fool delighted
I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
writing thinking class
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
suicide kids thinking
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.