Russell Banks Quotes

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

Russell Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 28, 1940

Topics

ComplexTangledTooMotivations

I enjoy yoga a lot, not even for the workout.

Jessica Szohr

EnjoyWorkoutEvenYogaLot

As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'

Andre Aciman

PastMeWritingNowSayWrite

You love each book. They're your children.

Ann Maxwell

LoveChildrenBookYouYourEach

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Amy Levy

BloodMayFleshMadeLoverCreature

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

Stephen Dillane

WorkGood-LookingWayGuyBeing

Demanding that our leaders take action on climate change is about a lot more than polar bears and ice caps; it's about safeguarding our health, preserving our prosperity, and protecting the future of our children.

Tom Steyer

ChangeFutureChildrenHealthAction

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

Luis Fonsi

GuitarYouProductionWhereTweak

I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person could step up to a Hollywood screen, and international screen, and help save the world.'

Ludi Lin

TimeManI AmStepWorldSpeak

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Louis L'Amour

MemoriesAloneMemoryEndTrailOwn

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

Joshua Foer

WordsProcessOverMessEvolveLike

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Debi Thomas

DreamsTimePeopleStupidImpossible

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

Anne Lamott

LoveSpiritualMeTransformationTry

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