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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."

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: "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."

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: "Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together."

Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.



Russell Banks Quotes: "Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most."

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.




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."

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: "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."

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: "Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely."

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.




Russell Banks Quotes: "Nobody does anything for one reason."

Nobody does anything for one reason.



Russell Banks Quotes: "And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.



Russell Banks Quotes: "But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down."

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



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."

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

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




Russell Banks Quotes: "It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check."

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



Russell Banks Quotes: "If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter."

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.



Russell Banks Quotes: "My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."

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



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."

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

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



Russell Banks Quotes: "The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."

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



Russell Banks Quotes: "Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far."

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.



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."

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: "Motivations are too tangled and complex."

Motivations are too tangled and complex.



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."

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: "Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young."

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.



Russell Banks Quotes: "One hates a person for the same reason one loves him"

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him



Russell Banks Quotes: "It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know."

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.



Russell Banks Quotes: "If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born."

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.



Russell Banks Quotes: "Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins."

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.



Russell Banks Quotes: "I am not a ventriloquist."

I am not a ventriloquist.



Russell Banks Quotes: "And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."

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



Russell Banks Quotes: "Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist."

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."

Much more than memoir; it's history.



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."

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: "There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are."

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



Russell Banks Quotes: "We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other."

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.



Russell Banks Quotes: "He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie."

He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.



Russell Banks Quotes: "When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike."

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.



Russell Banks Quotes: "Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is."

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.