Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher. Read full biography of 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... →
Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being... →
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
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... →
I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.
Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.
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... →
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... →
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... →
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write... →
A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.