Richard Russo's Quotes

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You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I...

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing...

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the...

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I...

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as...

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the...

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way...

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing...

If my career continues along its current arc people will probably look at me...

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the...

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes...

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I...

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the...

At the risk of appearing disingenuous I don't really think of myself as...

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just...

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I...

If you work at comedy too laboriously you can kill what's funny in the joke.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way...

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical it's because I...

Truth be told I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one though it's...

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