I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
Frederick BuschThere is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.
Frederick BuschI can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.
Frederick BuschBaseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
Frederick BuschIf 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.
Frederick Busch