What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about. Frederick Busch More Quotes by Frederick Busch More Quotes From Frederick Busch History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah. Frederick Busch scary-stories yeah beautiful 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 consideration surfing kids I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist. Frederick Busch next jocks novelists I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems. Frederick Busch imagine whole book 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 reading teaching running Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either. Frederick Busch publishing models hollywood I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. Frederick Busch editors novelists believe People do not read, by and large. They watch television. Frederick Busch watches people television The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. Frederick Busch together reality people Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?" Frederick Busch mistreated nonfiction facts It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. Frederick Busch real attention fiction The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest. Frederick Busch interest imagination culture 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 writing book thinking 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 important writing character I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. Frederick Busch done writing years If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership. Frederick Busch readership pages blood 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. Frederick Busch made book looks I always had good students. Frederick Busch good-students students 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 sitting-still worry beautiful It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information. Frederick Busch information literature world
