Russell Banks
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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
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Russell Banks
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
The prizes have some credibility, of course. And they do good work for the writer and for the publisher, by winnowing one book out of the pack.
Russell Banks
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.
Russell Banks
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.
Russell Banks
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
