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.

  Frederick Busch

  Why Not, Littles, Pounds

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• The best defense is a good story.

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  Defense, Stories, Good Story

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• Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

  Frederick Busch

  Dance, Art, Prayer

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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.

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  Baseball, Kids, Games

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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.

  Frederick Busch

  Book, Brave, Verbs

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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 Busch

  Pain, Simple, Giving

  Frederick Busch (2013). “The Stories of Frederick Busch”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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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 Busch

  Risk, Matter, Needs

  Frederick Busch (2011). “A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life”, p.31, Macmillan

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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 Busch

  Believe, Writing, Eighteen Years Old

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• We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

  Frederick Busch

  Beautiful, Sitting Still, Worry

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• If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

  Frederick Busch

  Blood, Pages, Readership

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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 Busch

  Book, Four, May

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• I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

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  Writing, Years, Done

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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 Busch

  Writing, Done, Publish

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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 Busch

  Kings, Reviews, Spite

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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 Busch

  Years, Fiction, Certain

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• I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

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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.

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  Hero, Men, People

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• When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

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  Fall, Writing, Trying

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• History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

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  Beautiful, Scary Stories, Yeah

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• There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

  Frederick Busch

  Kids, Surfing, Consideration

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• I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

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  Novelists, Jocks, Next

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• I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

  Frederick Busch

  Book, Imagine, Whole

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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 Busch

  Running, Teaching, Reading

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• I get to meet writers, and I love writers.

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• I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

  Frederick Busch

  Baseball, Waiting, Baseball Love

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