Banks
Banks
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth15 June 1988
CountryUnited States of America
clever reading writing
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
men together fields
Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.
people stranger good-and-bad
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
want persons hard
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
No, because I am not a ventriloquist.
book writing perfect
The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.
want good-things very-good
What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
sin prohibition
Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.
writing program apprenticeship
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
new-york house john-brown
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
play community roles
Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.
motivation tangled complexes
Motivations are too tangled and complex.
war rights political
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.