“I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.” — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — 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
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading. — Frederick Busch Books Copy Share Image
When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as… — Frederick Busch Character Copy Share Image
Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were… — Frederick Busch Always waiting Copy Share Image
Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell.… — Frederick Busch Book Copy Share Image
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all… — Frederick Busch Facts Copy Share Image
I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade… — Frederick Busch Campus Copy Share Image
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. — Frederick Busch Angry Copy Share Image
There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially… — Frederick Busch Consideration Copy Share Image