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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

~Richard Russo

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It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

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I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

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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.

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People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 15th, 1949

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