What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to… — Frederick Busch Deserve 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
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
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
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — Frederick Busch Believe 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
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
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
“I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.” — Frederick Busch Ralph-the-duck 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 Believe 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 Done 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
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
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 Bookshops Copy Share Image
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems. — Frederick Busch Asks 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 Be brave 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
“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'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist. — Frederick Busch Jocks 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
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
