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

~Richard Russo

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

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My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 15th, 1949

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