Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable. — Frederick Busch Art 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
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting. — Frederick Busch Always waiting 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
“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into… — Frederick Busch Life 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
I know important literary writers who can't get published. — Frederick Busch Important Copy Share Image
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Attention 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
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. — Frederick Busch Done Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either. — Frederick Busch Blockbuster 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
The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high… — Frederick Busch Earnest 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
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
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership. — Frederick Busch Blood 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
You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history. — Frederick Busch Books 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
“....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
