Richard Bausch Quotes

#1. 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 the time - or at least most of the time.

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#2. Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.

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

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#4. I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.

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#5. Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.

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

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

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#8. I don't read reviews.

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#9. A good story needs only a good storyteller.

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#10. He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places, the shining bark of the wet trees all around. He could not think of any prayers now. But every movement felt like a kind of adoration.

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#11. When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.

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

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

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#14. In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.

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