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Rick Bass Quotes

I don’t think I’m a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I’ve been working on it a long time, and it’s not getting much better Picture Quote #1

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds Picture Quote #1

I’ve heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner Picture Quote #1

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or ‘real’ people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence Picture Quote #1

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July Picture Quote #1

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith Picture Quote #1

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The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears Picture Quote #1

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one’s life Picture Quote #1

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction Picture Quote #1

I don’t think I’m a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I’ve been working on it a long time, and it’s not getting much better Picture Quote #1

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me Picture Quote #1

How we fall into grace. You can’t work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden Picture Quote #1

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A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good Picture Quote #1

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life Picture Quote #1

I’ve heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little place in time where things just feel so right and huge and powerful and easy that I will have the perhaps blasphemous thought maybe there are layers of heaven Picture Quote #1

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths? Picture Quote #1

There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think I’m a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I’ve been working on it a long time, and it’s not getting much better. (Rick Bass Quotes) Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds (Rick Bass Quotes) I’ve heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner. (Rick Bass Quotes) I think a novelist must be more tender with living or ‘real’ people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence (Rick Bass Quotes) My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July (Rick Bass Quotes) Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith (Rick Bass Quotes) The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears (Rick Bass Quotes) To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one’s life (Rick Bass Quotes) Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction (Rick Bass Quotes) I don’t think I’m a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I’ve been working on it a long time, and it’s not getting much better (Rick Bass Quotes) Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me (Rick Bass Quotes) How we fall into grace. You can’t work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden (Rick Bass Quotes) A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good (Rick Bass Quotes) Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life (Rick Bass Quotes) I’ve heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner (Rick Bass Quotes) Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little place in time where things just feel so right and huge and powerful and easy that I will have the perhaps blasphemous thought maybe there are layers of heaven (Rick Bass Quotes) Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths? (Rick Bass Quotes) There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love (Rick Bass Quotes)