Top 27 Quotes by Russell Banks

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

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

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.

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.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.