Blocked Quote by Richard Bausch

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…

— Richard Bausch

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the…

— Richard Bausch

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

— Richard Bausch

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything…

— Richard Bausch

“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the…

— Richard Bausch

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it…

— Richard Bausch

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining…

— Richard Bausch

“My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it.”

— Richard Bausch

I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all…

— Richard Bausch

“He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places,…

— Richard Bausch

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character…

— Richard Bausch

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

— Richard Bausch