Russell Banks
Biography
Quotes
- My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
- 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.
- 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.
