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Russell Banks

"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."

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"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."

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"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."
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"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."
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"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."
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"Nobody does anything for one reason."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."
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"I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice."
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"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
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