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
   
Richard Russo   Name:
Richard Russo
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 15, 1949
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