Ability Quote by Frederick Busch

“Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.”

Frederick Busch

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Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

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I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

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“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead…

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I know important literary writers who can't get published.

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I always had good students.

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It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

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History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

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If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be…

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I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

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