Frederick Busch Quotes

• 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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  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.

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  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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  Béisbol, Niños, Juegos

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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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  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.

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  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.

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  Risk, Matter, Needs

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

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• Si puedes proponer unas memorias, aunque tengas dieciocho años -¿y qué recuerdas? ¿Qué recuerdas? Si puedes proponer unas memorias, creo que alguien te pagará por escribirlas. Y conseguirás un contrato de no ficción. Y si se trata de victimología de un modo u otro, conseguirás más dinero. Es una sensación.

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  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.

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  Beautiful, Sitting Still, Worry

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

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  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.

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  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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• Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

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  Hollywood, Publishing, Models

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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.

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  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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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.

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  Writing, Character, Important

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• I know important literary writers who can't get published.

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  Important, Knows

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• I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Years, Fiction, Certain

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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.

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  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.

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  Baseball, Waiting, Baseball Love

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• Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

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  Book, Looks, Made

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• I always had good students.

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  Students, Good Students

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• I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

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  Believe, Editors, Novelists

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