Russell Banks Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Russell Banks quotes and sayings page 3 (84 year old author). These are the last 7 out of 27 quotes we have for him.

“It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.”

“The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”