Quote by Richard Russo
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill whats funny in

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill whats funny in the joke. – Richard Russo

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I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comics best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what hes doing is easy is an occupational hazard. – 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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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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