Richard Bausch Quotes

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• To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things…
• 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 things…
• 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…
• In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to…
• Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted -…
• Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.
• Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
• Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and…
• Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended…

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