Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work. — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
