Richard Russo

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comforted #easy #entertained #entertaining #experience

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it. ↗

— Richard Russo

#go #looking #theme #ultimately #will

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. ↗

— Richard Russo

#book #book tour #by the time #finish #had

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comes #dialogue #dictation #down #easiest

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ↗

— Richard Russo

#another #assumes #authors #begin #end

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. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises. ↗

— Richard Russo

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Writers are people who put pen to paper every day. ↗

— Richard Russo

#every #every day #paper #pen #people

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #depth #enters #great #her

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. ↗

— Richard Russo

#much #novel #over #pains #screenplay

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. ↗

— Richard Russo

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