Top 27 Quotes by 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.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

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.