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Russell Banks Quotes
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Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It’s done all right on its own so far. (Russell Banks Quotes)
Luck can’t last a lifetime unless you die young (Russell Banks Quotes)
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties (Russell Banks Quotes)
I don’t want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice (Russell Banks Quotes)
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university (Russell Banks Quotes)
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War (Russell Banks Quotes)
What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don’t want them to get older as you get older (Russell Banks Quotes)
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art (Russell Banks Quotes)
First of all it’s usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated. (Russell Banks Quotes)
Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It’s one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. (Russell Banks Quotes)
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I’d become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. (Russell Banks Quotes)
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. (Russell Banks Quotes)
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other (Russell Banks Quotes)
Nobody does anything for one reason (Russell Banks Quotes)
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer (Russell Banks Quotes)
Motivations are too tangled and complex (Russell Banks Quotes)
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter (Russell Banks Quotes)
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us (Russell Banks Quotes)
One hates a person for the same reason one loves him (Russell Banks Quotes)
Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist (Russell Banks Quotes)
Much more than memoir; it’s history (Russell Banks Quotes)
But on the other hand, I don’t actively seek out stories or hunt them down (Russell Banks Quotes)
What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem (Russell Banks Quotes)
It’s hard to know more about a person’s life than what that person wants you to know (Russell Banks Quotes)
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons (Russell Banks Quotes)
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing (Russell Banks Quotes)
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey (Russell Banks Quotes)
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care (Russell Banks Quotes)
First of all it’s usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated (Russell Banks Quotes)
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant (Russell Banks Quotes)
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