So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us. Russell Banks culturaldivideissue Change image and share on social
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 ageamericanart share on social
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. Russell Banks columbiacoupleearly Change image and share on social
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. Russell Banks checkhardreality Change image and share on social
Motivations are too tangled and complex. Russell Banks complexmotivationtangle Change image and share on social
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 honestimaginativeintelligent Change image and share on social
Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely. Russell Banks chimpanzeeendangerseverely Change image and share on social
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 backbookchange share on social
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 avoidbookbraid share on social
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. Russell Banks 1960sactivistanti Change image and share on social
