By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing … - Richard Russo

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Richard Russo

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

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And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

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Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

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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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Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

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People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

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