Russell Banks
Russell Banks
Russell Banksis an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 March 1940
CountryUnited States of America
Russell Banks quotes about
want good-things very-good
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.
book writing perfect
The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.
want persons hard
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
luck lasts lifetime
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
play community roles
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.
motivation tangled complexes
Motivations are too tangled and complex.
war rights political
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.
writing intelligent honest
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.
discipline pals attention
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.
loyalty people kicks
Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.
reading boys artist
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.
couple years nyu
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
memoir
Much more than memoir; it's history.
wonderful unconscious smarter
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.