Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch is an American novelist and short story writer, and Professor in the Writing Program at Chapman University in Orange, California. Bausch was born in 1945 in Fort Benning, Georgia. He previously lived in Virginia and in Memphis, Tennessee. He has written twelve novels, eight short story collections, and one volume of poetry and prose...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
imagining
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.
writing pieces littles
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.
art jobs wall
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most—suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another—are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.
stories needs storyteller
A good story needs only a good storyteller.
writing
Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.
writing people doubt
I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.
bit work
Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.
confusion good time tremendous written
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
attacks bigoted ignorant survived whose winds work writers
Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.
ended turned wrote
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.
love meet people time trillion
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.
bad image life mind possible shows walks
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.