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I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

Frederick Busch

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Frederick Busch
Age: 64 †
Born: 1941
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: February 23
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New York
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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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I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.
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I know important literary writers who can't get published.
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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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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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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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What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.
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History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.
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I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.
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The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by people earnest, still, but maybe less well-prepared than we would want them to be - but not because they are stupid or churlish.
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If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
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I always had good students.
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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 read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.
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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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It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.
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When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.
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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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Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.
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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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