Russell Banks

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most. ↗

— Russell Banks

#loyalty

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. ↗

— Russell Banks

#attention #become #dedicate #discipline #hanging

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him  ↗

— Russell Banks

#love #love

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. ↗

— Russell Banks

#become #honest #imaginative #intelligent #life

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. ↗

— Russell Banks

#care #love #people #want #who

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down. ↗

— Russell Banks

#down #hand #hunt #i #other

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

— Russell Banks

#been #draw #i #life #my life

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. ↗

— Russell Banks

#come #educated #first #first of all #higher

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. ↗

— Russell Banks

#accountant #almost #anyone #average #chooses

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely. ↗

— Russell Banks

#severely