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Russell Banks

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

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

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"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
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"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
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"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."
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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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"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."
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"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."
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