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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

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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. ↗

— Richard Russo

#ago #anything #books #bought #cheap

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

#against #already #always #any #been

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. ↗

— Richard Russo

#back #begin #certainly #close #end

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#got #i #license #pilot #private

Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#conflict #eased #east #find #flight

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#assume #before #eyes #face #front

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. ↗

— Tony Snow

#brushes #business #more #oil #paint

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#am #become #council #i #i am

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

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