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.
Frederick BuschWhat to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
Frederick BuschWhen I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.
Frederick BuschThe people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.
Frederick BuschI have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.
Frederick BuschWe 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.
Frederick Busch