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Russell Banks

"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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"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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"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."
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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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"First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated."
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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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"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
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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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"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing."
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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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"Nobody does anything for one reason."
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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
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