I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
From Russell Banks
First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.
Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
Nobody does anything for one reason.
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
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.
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
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