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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 Picture Quote #1

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work Picture Quote #1

Lists of books we reread and books we can’t finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves Picture Quote #1

The way I feel about every book is this: you don’t finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn’t write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn’t have to write again, and I wouldn’t want to. That’s not true for everyone, but it’s true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven’t managed to do it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life Picture Quote #1

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Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you don’t expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most Picture Quote #1

They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded Picture Quote #1

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle Picture Quote #1

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting Picture Quote #1

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are Picture Quote #1

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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) If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work (Russell Banks Quotes) Lists of books we reread and books we can’t finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves (Russell Banks Quotes) The way I feel about every book is this: you don’t finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn’t write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn’t have to write again, and I wouldn’t want to. That’s not true for everyone, but it’s true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven’t managed to do it (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) Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life (Russell Banks Quotes) Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you don’t expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most (Russell Banks Quotes) They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded (Russell Banks Quotes) We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle (Russell Banks Quotes) I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting (Russell Banks Quotes) There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are (Russell Banks Quotes)

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