Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“They were the only three people I'd chosen on my own to love, and they were gone. But still, that morning in Mobay when… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
