Frederick Busch quotes
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“Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.”
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“Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.”
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“If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Frederick Busch (2011). “A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life”, p.31, Macmillan
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“Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.”
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“Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Frederick Busch (2013). “The Stories of Frederick Busch”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
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“If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I know important literary writers who can't get published.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I get to meet writers, and I love writers.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.”
-- Frederick BuschSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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