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I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I dont have a lot of sympathy for because Im just going to be with them too long. – Richard Russo

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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. – Richard Russo

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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

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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. – Richard Russo

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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. – Meister Eckhart

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Its hard for me to think of others because Im not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. – Alan Hovhaness

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. – Confucius

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

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When all the noise is gone there is only God. – Author Unknown

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