I have to have a character worth caring about. I t... -Richard Russo

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Richard Russo , Novelist
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I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is ef...
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is freque...
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned....
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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imaginati...
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've alway...

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Yeah, I mean, having been raised like a Catholic, I have a sort of sympathy for religion, in that I think that religion's religion. It can be bad or g...
There will be no sympathy for Trump from voters if he suffers greatly from COVID-19 and he wouldn't know how to be a sympathetic character anyway....
I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have a huge appreciation of Charles, and what t...
I had no sympathy with my mum and dad....
Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It's frightening to talk about it. The people suffer...
The infuriating thing about not liking your weight when you're slim is that there's no sympathy and very rarely any help....
Many migrants awaiting asylum hearings in the U.S. never show up for their court dates. And the longer they stay in the U.S., the more sympathy they d...
From a very young age I'd learned to put on a brave face because of losing my mum. I'd always make jokes if anybody tried to throw sympathy at me....
I'm not looking for sympathy. If there's other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them....
I had a horrifying experience but what the world fails to understand is that the handicapped need no sympathy, they need to be encouraged in whatever ...