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 dont mean to. – Richard Russo
Truth be told, Im not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though its been my experience that most people dont want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. – Richard Russo
People often ask me how I make things funny. I dont make things funny. – Richard Russo
My books are elegiac in the sense that theyre odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. – Richard Russo
I wouldnt date an actress. Theres only room for one actor in my life and Im it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, its very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesnt. – Jonathan Rhys Meyers