Quotes by Richard Bausch

About Richard Bausch:

Richard Bausch is an American novelist and short story writer, and Professor in the Writing Program of Wilkinson College of the Arts & Humanities at Chapman University in Orange, California. Bausch was born in 1945 in Fort Benning, Georgia. He is the twin brother of author Robert Bausch. Bausch previously lived in Virginia and in Memphis, Tennessee. He has written twelve novels, eight short story collections, and one volume of poetry and prose.
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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

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

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 fe...

Richard Bausch

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

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

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

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

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.

Richard Bausch

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

Richard Bausch

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Bausch
  • DescriptionWriter
  • BornApril 18, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist