Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
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“Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.”
— Russell Banks · Draw
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“Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.”
“Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.”
“John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.”
“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”
“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.”
“First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.”
More Draw Quotes
“I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.”
“I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.”
“I've been really lucky to have had my fair share of relationships over the years and experiences to draw from. But I would say that I generally am not the one doing the heartbreaking.”
“Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.”
“UCLA will always be involved with great players, and those players always draw scrutiny. That's just the way it is.”
“In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.”