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
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
expression people use
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?
regret way world
I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?
scary leaving easier
They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,
comedy ifs jokes
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
structure
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
skills information grids
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
tasks overwhelming smallest
Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.
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.
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.
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.