top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Nobody does anything for one reason."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Reason quotes
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."
"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
Explore more quotes by Russell Banks
"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."
"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
"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."
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
"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."
"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."
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
"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."
bottom of page