“I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.” Quote by Frederick Busch
“The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.” ThinkingWorldWritingDoubtImportance Author:Frederick Busch
“I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.” ThinkingWorldArtCultureRight NowOur World Author:Frederick Busch
“The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by people earnest, still, but maybe less well-prepared than we would want them to be - but not because they are stupid or churlish.” PeopleWantWellsStillsSchoolYoungUsedStupidTaughtHigh SchoolPreparedEarnestScope Author:Frederick Busch
“It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.” WorldLiteratureInformationHarder Author:Frederick Busch
“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.” PeopleNeedsStillsBeautifulYoungCulturePovertyWorryShareHavensPagesSittingTablesFilledRageProseConsiderationContemplatingHouseholdOppressedExquisiteDickensSitting Still Author:Frederick Busch
“Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.” LooksMadeBookSellsTested Author:Frederick Busch
“Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.” ModelsHollywoodPublishingBlockbuster Author: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 believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.” IfsWayWritingYearsBelieveRememberI BelievePayMemoirOne WaySensationsContractsNonfictionMore MoneyProposeEighteenEighteen Years Old Author: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 written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.” FirstsMayBookFourWrittenHavensReaderEasierNovelistsPublishGamble Author:Frederick Busch