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.
fun looks oscars
Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?
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.
america losing small-places
America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.
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.
running worry dry
I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
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.