Russell Banks

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. ↗

— Russell Banks

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The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. ↗

— Russell Banks

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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. ↗

— Russell Banks

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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. ↗

— Russell Banks

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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

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