Russell banks

Born :28 March 1940

American1940

Russell Banks born on 28th March 1940. As of today 7th May 2025 , we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 27 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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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.

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.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

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

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

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

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

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

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.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

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

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

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

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

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