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 Read Quote
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. Russell Banks Read Quote
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. Russell Banks Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Russell Banks Read Quote
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. Russell Banks Read Quote
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. Russell Banks Read Quote
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 Read Quote
