We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.
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
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
What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
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
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.
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable. - Frederick Busch
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership. - Frederick Busch
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
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 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…
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting. - Frederick Busch
I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.
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
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…
The best defense is a good story. - Frederick Busch
The best defense is a good story.
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