Richard Russo Quotes & Sayings

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52 most famous Richard Russo quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 74 year old American novelist born on Jul 15, 1949.

“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.”
“I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.”
Richard Russo Quotes
“Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.”
“A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.”
Richard Russo Quotes
“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.”
“I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.”
“I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.”
Richard Russo Quotes
“America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.”
Richard Russo Quotes
“Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.”
“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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