Frederick Busch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Frederick Busch

#Why Not #Littles #Pounds
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
-- Frederick Busch

#Dance #Art #Prayer
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 Busch

#Risk #Needs #May
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.
-- Frederick Busch

#Book #Brave #Verbs
The best defense is a good story.
-- Frederick Busch

#Defense #Stories #Good Story
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 Busch

#Baseball #Kids #Games
What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
-- Frederick Busch

#Pain #Simple #Giving
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 Busch

#Believe #Writing #Eighteen Years Old
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
-- Frederick Busch

#Blood #Pages #Readership
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 Busch

#Book #Four #May
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.
-- Frederick Busch

#Writing #Years #Done
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 Busch

#Writing #Character #Important
I know important literary writers who can't get published.
-- Frederick Busch

#Important #Knows
I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.
-- Frederick Busch

#Writing #Done #Publish
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 Busch

#Kings #Reviews #Spite
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.
-- Frederick Busch

#Years #Fiction #Certain
I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.
-- Frederick Busch
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 Busch

#Hero #Men #People
I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.
-- Frederick Busch

#Novelists #Jocks #Next
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.
-- Frederick Busch

#Book #Imagine #Whole
I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.
-- Frederick Busch

#Running #Teaching #Reading
I get to meet writers, and I love writers.
-- Frederick Busch
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.
-- Frederick Busch

#Baseball #Waiting #Baseball Love
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 Busch

#Book #Writing #Thinking
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.
-- Frederick Busch

#Hollywood #Publishing #Models

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