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.
I am not a ventriloquist. - Russell Banks
I am not a ventriloquist.
- Russell Banks
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 be… - Russell Banks
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 be…
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. - 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.
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other. - Russell Banks
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy … - Russell Banks
It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy …
You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it is to do. Eventually, you lea… - Russell Banks
You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it is to do. Eventually, you lea…
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are. - Russell Banks
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.
The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write a… - Russell Banks
The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write a…
Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far. - Russell Banks
Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.
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