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 Read Quote
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. Russell Banks Read Quote
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us. Russell Banks Read Quote
I don’t want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice. Russell Banks Read Quote
Lists of books we reread and books we can’t finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. Russell Banks Read Quote
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 Read Quote
