Banks
Banks
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth15 June 1988
CountryUnited States of America
both john love michael
I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.
intimate millions speaking
I'm very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.
hurt children writing
I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.
family-first firsts
That has always been it for me: family first.
reality people looks
I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.
blessing answers submit
It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
mom honesty home
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
writing imagination genre
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
storytelling allegiance majors
My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
reality years solitude
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
hunting hands stories
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
reading boys artist
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
couple years nyu
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
memoir
Much more than memoir; it's history.