"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."

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Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

Russell Banks

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Home Quotes

“Dogs are too much to handle. I don't need anything in my house that's needier than me.”

Source : "Marc Maron Off-Screen". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2015.
“Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.”
“They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.”
“I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.”
“I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.”
“I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.”
“To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.”
“I'll have my double chins in privacy.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1922.

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