Quote by Russell Banks Download Open image ““No, because I am not a ventriloquist. ”” — Russell Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“hey. Your lips didn’t move when you said that. Are you a ventriloquist?” — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
“I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Once you’re in the circus you’re all in the circus, and of course it turns out that they are real people too.” — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“All the world's a circus. Sometimes you choose your act and sometimes it's assigned to you.” — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Of course I mean it. I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice.” — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Do you even listen to what I say? Would you be able to listen better if you were wearing a football helmet full of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?” — Alice Oseman 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
