“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
“It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.” KnowsWantPersonsHard Book:Trailerpark Source: Trailerpark
“One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.” WantChildrenPersonsMatterReasonParentDifficultOur ChildrenDareStrangerWho We AreMatesDifficult Things Author:Russell Banks
“The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront this issue so much in the U.S. because of how we want to think about our veterans. There's the sense that we want to think of our veterans as - if they're damaged, damaged by something glamorous, like a firefight.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMayIssuesSoldierConnectedTortureVeteranGlamorousOur VeteransAmerican Soldier Author:Russell Banks
“And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.” PeopleWantWritingCare Author:Russell Banks
“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.” KnowsWantAudienceFindingsGood ThingsVery Good Author:Russell Banks
