Quotes by Russell Banks

Russell Banks

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

Couple

Nyu

Years

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

Draws

Paint

Writing

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

Clever

Reading

Writing

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

Care

People

Writing

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.

Boys

Kids

Men

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

Hands

Hunting

Stories

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.

Art

Reading

Writing

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Chimpanzees

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

Agents

Dentist

Lawyer

Driving home, it’s all I can do to keep from crying. Time’s come, time’s gone, time’s never returning, I say to myself. What’s here in front of me is all I’ve got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn’t seem like much, except for the kindness that I’ve just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that.

Home

Kindness

Snow

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Black

Book

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Care

Children

Chimpanzees

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Cold

Community

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Confused

Couple

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Discipline

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Done

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Dumb

Fantasy

Fire

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Frustration

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Good Things

Grandson

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Heart

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Quotes by Russell Banks

Russell Banks

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

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

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

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

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.

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

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.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

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