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Russell Banks Quotes

Russell Banks quotes

American Author March 28, 1940

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Russell Banks quote: "Motivations are too tangled and complex."
Motivations are too tangled and complex. Russell Banks
All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs. 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
Russell Banks quote: "The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized..."
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. Russell Banks
Actually I dont know if it ever works out unless you are standing in the middle of the street and dont see the ten-ton truck coming and this good guy pushes you out of the way and says its for your own good. Russell Banks
It's like a crime is an act that when you've committed one the act is over and you haven't changed inside. But when you commit a sin it's like you create a condition that you have to live in. Russell Banks
Russell Banks quote: "It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude..."
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. Russell Banks
Russell Banks quote: "A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and..."
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. Russell Banks
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
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
But when you’re a kid it’s like you’re wearing these binoculars strapped to your eyes and you can’t see anything except what’s in the dead center of the lenses Russell Banks
Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of one of those eggs you poke a little hole in and draw out its eggy contents before you dye it for Easter. Russell Banks
The Cop. She has a steel grid in front of her mind, and for anything in the outer world to reach her it first has to squeeze through the bars of that grid. Information has to be broken into small cubes; information and data packaged in two-dimensional squares are preferable to three-dimensional cubes however: they pass through the grid more quickly and once they reach the Cop’s mind take up less space there. Russell Banks
my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in turn gave them back the same reflected version of themselves Russell Banks
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

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