Russell Banks said this quote

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.

~ Russell Banks

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

~ Russell Banks

A tattoo does that, it makes you think about your body like it's this special suit that you can put on or take off whenever you want and a new name if it's cool enough does the same thing. To have both at once is power. It's the kind of power as all those superheroes who have secret identities get from being able to change back and forth from one person into another. No matter who you think he is, man, the dude is always somebody else.

~ Russell Banks

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

~ Russell Banks