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Russell Banks
Russell Banks
American Author
Born: Mar 28, 1940
Become Been Life Reading Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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 age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. Russell Banks
Art Me Age People Writing Made Reading High High Art Classics Particular Like Led American Taught Ordinary Ordinary People Really Twain Who Lives Early Early Age
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. Russell Banks
Worth Relative Books Tell About Finish More Than Lists Themselves Us
Motivations are too tangled and complex. Russell Banks
Too Complex Tangled Motivations
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. Russell Banks
Time Solitude Spend Total Years Working Hard
First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated. Russell Banks
Women Men First White Backgrounds Run Rarely Higher Come First Of All Educated Privileged Who
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. Russell Banks
Programs Columbia Couple Years Graduate Taught Eighties NYU Early
What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older. Russell Banks
Good You Older Finding Good Thing Know Audience Am Very Get Getting Want Which Them Younger Now Thing
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 part of their life. Russell Banks
Life Writing Become Other More Through Part Intelligent Than Any Process Realize Imaginative Honest
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. Russell Banks
Thought Reading Become Late Late Teens Teens Visual Drifted Talent Boy Began Artist Artistic Literature Serious

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