American - Novelist | July 15, 1949 -
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
Richard Russo
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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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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.
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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
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I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.
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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?
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Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
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Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.
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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.
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Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.
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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
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