#ok

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#done #find #generally #go #good

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny. ↗

— Mark Russell

#both #both sides #funny #i #i do

I start with the joke line and write backward. ↗

— Nipsey Russell

#i #joke #line #start #write

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits. ↗

— Tim Russert

#better #cost #country #cuts #deficits

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#book #heartbreaking #hilarious #i #i think

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #delight #doing #know #lot

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming? ↗

— Richard Russo

#being #cary #cary grant #charming #effortless

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. ↗

— Richard Russo

#because #books #caring #character #going

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked? ↗

— Richard Russo

#copies #doors #earlier #extant #genuine

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #authors #book #changes #faithful