It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting. — Frederick Busch Copy Share
There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids… — Frederick Busch Copy Share
“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead… — Frederick Busch Copy Share
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… — Frederick Busch Copy Share
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Copy Share
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be… — Frederick Busch Copy Share
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either. — Frederick Busch Copy Share
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 Copy Share
