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Writing Quotes by Russell Banks
- 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…
- 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…
- And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
- 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 really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early…
- The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
- The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed,…
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