Russell Banks Quotes

• 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.

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• Nobody does anything for one reason.

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

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• Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It’s one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

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

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• John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

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• It’s hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

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

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Russell Banks (28)

Birth:	28th March, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.He lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is also Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland.

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