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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 effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.
    - Richard Russo
  • If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
    - Richard Russo
  • If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
    - Richard Russo
  • I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
    - Richard Russo
  • 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