Richard Bausch Quotes

My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it. ~ Richard Bausch

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. ~ Richard Bausch

The beautiful unruliness of literature is what makes it so much fun to wander through: you read Jane Austen and you say, oh, that is IT. And then you turn around and read Sterne, and you say, Man, that is IT. And then you wander across a century or so, and you run into Kafka, or Calvino, or Cortazar, and you say, well that is IT. And then you stroll through what Updike called the grottos of Ulysses, and after that you consort with Baldwin or Welty or Spencer, or Morrison, or Bellow or Fitzgerald and then back to W. Shakespeare, Esq; the champ, and all the time you feel the excitement of being in the presence of IT. And when you yourself spend the good time writing, you are not different in kind than any of these people, you are part of that miracle of human invention. So get to work. Get on with IT, no matter how difficult IT is. Every single gesture, every single stumble, every single uninspired-feeling hour, is worth IT. Richard Bausch ~ Kathy Fish

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc. ~ Richard Bausch

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. ~ Richard Bausch

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. ~ Richard Bausch

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. ~ Richard Bausch

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say. ~ Richard Bausch

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt. ~ Richard Bausch

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing. ~ Richard Bausch

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. ~ Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller. ~ Richard Bausch

I don't read reviews. ~ Richard Bausch

Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work. ~ Richard Bausch

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. ~ Richard Bausch

If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be convenient for rebels to say, 'It was the Americans.' ~ Richard Engel

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help. ~ Richard Llewellyn

The hero can never be a relativist. ~ Richard M. Weaver

I'm not a great hoper, Wade, I guess." We're not walking fast. Others pass us. "I just go in for generic hopes. That good comes to me, that I do little harm and die in my sleep. ~ Richard Ford

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation ~ Richard Branson

It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt. ~ Richard Paul Evans

They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces. ~ Richard Wright

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. ~ Richard M. Nixon

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared. ~ Richard Digance

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. ~ Richard Whately

There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat - draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative. ~ Richard Louv

Anything is possible."
"You really believe that?"
"It's what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds. ~ Richard Castle

The best writers stay out of their own way. ~ Richard Rybicki

When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professional writers. She introduced me to Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson, and I became very friendly with them over a period of two years. Both of them were very generous with their time, guidance and advice. ~ Jonathan Maberry

Going out into nature was one outlet that I had, which truly allowed me to calm down and not think or worry. ~ Richard Louv

Years ago, in an old notebook, I wrote: "One of Julian's most attractive qualities is his inability to see anyone, or anything, in its true light." And under it, in a different ink, "maybe one of my most attractive qualities, as well(?)" -Richard ~ Donna Tartt

We all get discouraged. ~ Richard G. Scott

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights ~ Richard Paul Evans

[Richard] remembered asking Tommy once why he didn't want to transition into a woman.
"And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I'm still all man. I'm just a man with decoration."
Tommy Wilkins, A Very Tate Christmas (Tate Pack #3) ~ Vicktor Alexander

For in marriage a little licence,a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him. ~ Virginia Woolf

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier. ~ Richard Gere

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual. ~ Richard Griffiths

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. ~ Richard Hofstadter

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth. ~ Richard Salter Storrs

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary ~ Richard Paul Evans

Science is but one form of rationalism, while religion is the most common form of superstition. ~ Richard Dawkins

The quiet power of a life transformed by the grace of God is so explosive that it can redirect the course of human events ~ Richard Foster

It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway. ~ Richard M. Sherman

Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead. ~ Richard Diaz

Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust ... They point us toward a way of living in which everything we have we receive as a gift, and everything we have is cared for by God, and everything we have is available to others when it is right and good. This reality frames the heart of Christian simplicity. It is the means of liberation and power to do what is right and to overcome the forces of fear and avarice. ~ Richard J. Foster

In his lecture on Jesus, Brown meditated on the unlikely paradox that any institution could represent this man because institutions, by their very nature, have to follow particular laws if they are to survive and prosper; and the main law of institutional survival is that the many take precedence over the few. If institutions are to endure they have to place a higher value on their own endurance than on loyalty to individuals, no matter how attractive or charismatic they may be. ~ Richard Holloway

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first. ~ Richard Engel

It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons. ~ Richard Paul Evans

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go. ~ Richard Perle

Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
~ Richard Armour

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me. ~ Richard Russo

Gull Fletcher," they asked, "did the Magnificent Jonathan say, 'We are in truth the ideas of the Great Gull . . .' or was it, 'We are in fact the ideas of the Great Gull . . .'?" "Please. Call me Fletcher. Just Fletcher Seagull," he would reply, appalled that they would use a term of reverence upon him. "And what difference does it make, which word he used? Both are correct, we are ideas of the Great Gull . . ." But ~ Richard Bach

Don't waste a minute fretting over the infinite destructive possibilities of The Singularity. Think of all the fun we're going to have along the way! It will all be one glorious adventure, start to finish! ~ Richard Long

And I knew that was not a bad thing at all, not for anyone, in any life. ~ Richard Ford

Americans today sometimes assume the Founders' references to God or Nature or the Supreme Ruler were just for impact or for propaganda. Not so. These were tightly reasoned statements of legal principles. Your rights to your life, liberty, and property came from your Creator, not the government; these rights cannot be repealed. ~ Richard J. Maybury

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585). ~ Richard Baxter