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When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

Frederick Busch

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Frederick Busch
Age: 64 †
Born: 1941
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: February 23
Novelist
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In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them.
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Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.
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I know important literary writers who can't get published.
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History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.
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I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
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I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.
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I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.
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The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.
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I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
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I always had good students.
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I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.
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I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.
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I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.
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Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
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First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.
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If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
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When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.
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What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
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My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.
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Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.
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