Russell Banks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Motivations are too tangled and complex.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.”

“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.”

“Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.”

“And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.”

“But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.”

“The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.”

“A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.”