Richard Bausch Quotes

You have to write about what's inside you. If I have to get something out, I'll do it.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don't want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn't do any good. It really doesn't.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

I have a few theories and trains of thought that I wouldn't expose because they are not anyone's business. I hold them sacred, it's how I feel, it's my opinion, not up for debate, and not meant to be shared.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

As a writer, penning down personal stuff was not easy for me, as it was way too close to my heart.

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at. Sometimes they weren't to a person, they were just to the universe - a bit like penning daydreams or isolated thoughts.

I've never been a confessional writer.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap. How many of these graphic novels over the years are from really talented people? Most of them actually, if you look at them, are self-pitying confessionals about "poor me".