“....he knew that he'd run into his destiny as a man in the dark walks into a wall.”
Source: The Night Inspector
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Famous Frederick Busch Quotes
Source: The Night Inspector
Source: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Source: The Stories of Frederick Busch
“I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.”
“It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.”
“I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.”
“If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.”
“The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.”
“Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.”
“I know important literary writers who can't get published.”
“I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.”
“When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.”
“You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.”
“I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.”
“I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.”
“I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.”
“Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.”
Source: A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life