To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.
Richard RussoA short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.
Richard RussoI don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.
Richard Russo