Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
– Russell Banks
My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
– Russell Banks
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.