Quotes by : Richard Russo

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer....

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's....

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply....

Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that....

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good....

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist....

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its....

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself....

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't....

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite....