Richard Russo

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me…

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until…

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They’re about stringing scenes together in the present…

Truth be told, I’m not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though…

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don’t make things funny…

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the…

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature…

My books are elegiac in the sense that they’re odes to a nation that even…

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and…

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don’t really think of myself as ‘writing humor…

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days…

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what’s funny in the joke…

I don’t think there’s a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head…

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

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when…