#t

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry. ↗

— Richard Russo

#dry #i #running #suppose #well

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

#care #deal #either #far #for the people

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comedy #comes #comic #harder #i

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

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. ↗

— Richard Russo

#fool #how #i #movie #nobody

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. ↗

— Richard Russo

#class #i #i do #just #much

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#days #devoted #diligently #divine #having

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. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #arc #betray #between #career

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. ↗

— Richard Russo

#american life #class #effects #enduring #life

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke. ↗

— Richard Russo

#funny #joke #kill #laboriously #too