Richard Russo

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I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

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Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

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Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

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If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

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About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

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Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

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You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

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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.

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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

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I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

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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.

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

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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

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