Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.
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. Use this quote
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. Use this quote
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. Use this quote
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. Use this quote
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
