Frederick Busch Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

  Frederick Busch

  Believe, Writing, Eighteen Years Old

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• I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

  Frederick Busch

  Writing, Done, Publish

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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

  Fall, Writing, Trying

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• I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

  Frederick Busch

  Writing, Years, Done

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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.

  Frederick Busch

  Writing, Dark, Trying

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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.

  Frederick Busch

  Writing, Character, Important

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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.

  Frederick Busch

  Confused, Book, Writing

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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.

  Frederick Busch

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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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.

  Frederick Busch

  Reading, Writing, Nonfiction

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• The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

  Frederick Busch

  Writing, Thinking, Doubt

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