When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
“My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it.” — Richard Bausch Copy Share
I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
“He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt. — Richard Bausch Copy Share
I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They… — Richard Bausch Copy Share
Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work. — Richard Bausch Copy Share
