Russell Banks Quotes

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

Quotes to Explore

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

J. Michael Straczynski
- Time
- Writing
- Space
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Kami Garcia
- Writing
- Art
- College
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

Randy Newman
- Writing
- Truth
- Yourself
In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

Nadia Comaneci
- Thinking
- Attention
- Years
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.

Madison Smartt Bell
- People
- Good
- Writing
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

Callie Khouri
- Writing
- Women
- Feel