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Russell Banks Quotes

American - Author | March 28, 1940 -

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.

Good I Am Finding You Know Want

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

Love People Care Want Write Because

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.

Life Writing Process Become More

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.

Life Work Discipline Writing You

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.

Talent Reading Thought Literature

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

Reading Desire Monkey Clever Write

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Life Writing My Life Now Paint Been

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.

Age Art People Me Writing Reading

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.

Work Learn Accountant Living Dentist

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Time Solitude Hard Years Working

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

Community Enough Play Storytelling

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.

Vision Political Hill First Movement

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