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?
mistake people loyal
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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,
together scene novel
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
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.
nice thinking long
One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.
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.
adventure middle middle-ground
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
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.