It’s hard to know more about a person’s life than what that person wants you to know. — Russell Banks
Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist. — Russell Banks
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are. — Russell Banks
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at nyu and columbia, in the early eighties. — Russell Banks
I began as a boy with artistic talent… as a visual artist… I thought that was what I’d become — Russell Banks
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. — Russell Banks
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. — Russell Banks
