All Rick Bass Quotes
- Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths? All
- Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world… Blasphemous
- Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith. Deep
- Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be… Exist
- I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the… Baking
- The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be… Alone
- The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears. Bears
- Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty?… Action
- A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. All
- Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. Fiction
- My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year,… Age
- To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life. Life
- Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would… Ambition
- I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's… Been
- I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before… Been
- The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing… Avoid
- When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out… Activist
- I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am… Amidst
- How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes… Beyond
- If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a… Anyone
- The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery… All
- There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that… Among
- Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing.… Act
- It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West… Allowed