“The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.” IfsWayWantFeelsWritingBookWalksPerfectHavensAbandon Author:Russell Banks
“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.” GivingPersonsBookHomeKidsReadingInterestingChangedExcitingWeekendChanged Person Author:Russell Banks
“Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.” InspirationalBookMotivationalListsRelative Author:Russell Banks
“One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.” BookRealReasonShowsMotivationEasySimpleViewsComplexesBraids Author:Russell Banks
