Quotes about Russell Banks

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that...

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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are...

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First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They...

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Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the...

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

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

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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to...

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

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

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What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get...

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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest...

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