“Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become m...” — Russell Banks Quote

“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.”

“I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.”

“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.”

“Motivations are too tangled and complex.”

“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.”

“For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.”

“There is a certain limitlessness to children's novels. You can be as fun and imaginative and creative as you want and your audience is going to believe it because they still have that huge imagination.”

“I would say: yes, I'm spiritual. I do believe in something else. I don't quite know what they are, but I don't believe this is just it. I'd much rather be imaginative about it.”

“I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.”

“For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.”

“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”

“What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.”