I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting. — Frederick Busch Always waiting Copy Share Image
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership. — 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 Books 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 Books Copy Share Image
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Attention Copy Share Image
“What to know about pain is how little we deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.” — Frederick Busch Pain Copy Share Image
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
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 Books Copy Share Image
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I… — Frederick Busch Book Copy Share Image
The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest. — Frederick Busch Culture 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 love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years. — Frederick Busch Books Copy Share Image
My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a… — Frederick Busch God Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of moment life gives us when it laughs. It is choosing without choice. A rich meagerness, that.” — Frederick Busch Choice Copy Share Image
Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the… — Frederick Busch Ability 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 Book Copy Share Image
In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their… — Frederick Busch Book Copy Share Image
“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into… — 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 Books Copy Share Image
The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of… — Frederick Busch Beautiful Copy Share Image
“…he knew that he'd run into his destiny as a man in the dark walks into a wall.” — Frederick Busch Dark Copy Share Image
I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist. — Frederick Busch Jock Copy Share Image
I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now. — Frederick Busch Art Copy Share Image
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think. — Frederick Busch Doubt Copy Share Image
You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history. — Frederick Busch Books Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable. — Frederick Busch Art Copy Share Image
