You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
Richard Russo
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What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
character
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
trust sound work order faith
I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
movies
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
funny comedy work
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
health
pain
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 imagination.
nations imagination
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
door
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
comedy comics
I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
worry
It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
comics
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