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

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

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

- Frederick Busch

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.

- Frederick Busch

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

- Frederick Busch

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 beli…

- Frederick Busch

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

- Frederick Busch

The best defense is a good story.

- Frederick Busch

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 wr…

- Frederick Busch