I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people — Richard Russo
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. — Richard Russo
Hbo is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. — Richard Russo
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They’ll do precisely — Richard Russo
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory — Richard Russo
It’s no secret that in my books I’m trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against — Richard Russo
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It’s always been my view — Richard Russo
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. — Richard Russo
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They’re about stringing scenes together in the present. — Richard Russo
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer — Richard Russo
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody’s fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. — Richard Russo
I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder — Richard Russo
If there’s an enduring theme in my work, it’s probably the effects of class on american life. — Richard Russo
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the — Richard Russo
My books are elegiac in the sense that they’re odes to a nation that even I sometimes think — Richard Russo
Some s have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book — Richard Russo
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me — Richard Russo
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I’m finished with a theme, I’m generally not. — Richard Russo
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel — Richard Russo
When s who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that’s the end. — Richard Russo
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. — Richard Russo
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it’s because I really don’t know how it works — Richard Russo