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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 27 quotes by Russell Banks Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships". Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American... Read full biography of Russell Banks → 1 2 3 Ctrl → 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... → 0 And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. 0 Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. 0 So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us. 0 Nobody does anything for one reason. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road... → 0 My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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