I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist. Frederick Busch More Quotes by Frederick Busch More Quotes From Frederick Busch 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 pounds littles The best defense is a good story. Frederick Busch good-story defense stories 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 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 games kids Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable. Frederick Busch dance prayer art 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 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 verbs brave book 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 eighteen-years-old writing believe I get to meet writers, and I love writers. Frederick Busch 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 four may book 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 publish done writing 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 reviews spite kings I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years. Frederick Busch certain fiction years 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 When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. Frederick Busch writing trying fall I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting. Frederick Busch baseball-love baseball waiting I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me. Frederick Busch interesting In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them. Frederick Busch confused writing book
