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
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
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
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
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
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
