Quote by Russell Banks

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

— Russell Banks

“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.”

— Russell Banks

“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

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

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

— Russell Banks

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

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

— Russell Banks

“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

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

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

— Russell Banks

“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

“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