Frederick Busch Quotes

#1. 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.

Frederick Busch

#2. I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.

Frederick Busch

#3. She better not die this time," I guess I said.

Frederick Busch

#4. What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

Frederick Busch

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

Frederick Busch

#6. Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Frederick Busch

#7. 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.

Frederick Busch

#8. ... Within the mind, especially the mind under great stress... boundaries of space and time are meaningless, and the... interior self lives by other rules and in other dimensions.

Frederick Busch