Ask the Author: Richard Bach
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Richard Bach
Flying all these aircraft is based on one single prayer that will never come true:
_Please let me become the sky._
From 10 mph in a paraglider to Mach 2 in an F-106 waits the same feeling. Surrounded by forever in the center of the sky, we yearn to become that foreverness, ourselves. Some say that's so, that our spirit lives forever.
Flying is the closest I've found to expressing that feeling, in this lifetime.
_Please let me become the sky._
From 10 mph in a paraglider to Mach 2 in an F-106 waits the same feeling. Surrounded by forever in the center of the sky, we yearn to become that foreverness, ourselves. Some say that's so, that our spirit lives forever.
Flying is the closest I've found to expressing that feeling, in this lifetime.
Richard Bach
Slovenia! I've had several letters from Slovenia! All of then kind and loving.
I'll be with you forever on the pages of that book.
I'll be with you forever on the pages of that book.
Richard Bach
Thank you for asking. Enjoy the performances!
Richard Bach
At one time, sure enough! There were 51 jumps. isn't it interesting how that number stays in one's mind?
On one of them, the main canopy failed and I pulled the reserve -- lucky for me, the reserve worked well. After a few more jumps, I went back to flying airplanes.
On one of them, the main canopy failed and I pulled the reserve -- lucky for me, the reserve worked well. After a few more jumps, I went back to flying airplanes.
Richard Bach
Here's the one unknown which writers must live with. If it's just one lifetime, and it smoothed the way for that one, that's all we need to keep writing forever.
Richard Bach
Q1: I wish him well. Soon as I read 'Bleak House' (not a title that inspires me to open the book), I'll remind him of his options.
Q2: As we're free to destroy, so are we free to create, as well. Most of us enjoy building the most adventurous, the most beautiful lives that we can imagine. Perhaps we can fail at that, but isn't it better to fail at perfect beauty, than it is to succeed at destruction?
Q2: As we're free to destroy, so are we free to create, as well. Most of us enjoy building the most adventurous, the most beautiful lives that we can imagine. Perhaps we can fail at that, but isn't it better to fail at perfect beauty, than it is to succeed at destruction?
Richard Bach
I don't need to see it, since I remember that message. Has it been a year, yet?
Richard Bach
I learned simply not to care about the concerns of others. I'll consider them, but if they're from some different world ("Here's the type of clothes you should be wearing"), I'll let them discover that it's their problem to solve.
It is not up to them to solve my tests ("How can I fly higher than ever I have flown before?"), That's my problem to solve, not theirs.
It is not up to them to solve my tests ("How can I fly higher than ever I have flown before?"), That's my problem to solve, not theirs.
Richard Bach
An easy decision -- I couldn't hold any job for more than eight months. At last, in desperation, I wrote a lot of stories, and sold a few.
Then I realized that a chapter in a book is about as long as one story. So I wrote chapters, which became books. After five rejections or so, they were published! It took perhaps thirty years before I could call myself a "writer" without laughing.
Then I realized that a chapter in a book is about as long as one story. So I wrote chapters, which became books. After five rejections or so, they were published! It took perhaps thirty years before I could call myself a "writer" without laughing.
Richard Bach
Never. My problem so often is that I forget to ask them.
Richard Bach
I know nothing, Laura, about poetry. Except that it's really difficult to reach many readers with that form of writing.
Richard Bach
Hi Korina,
I'm honored that you'd went to take a screenshot of those words! And sure enough, writers channel their stories just as architects channel their houses, and machinists channel their metal.
Nothing strange about that we all channel ideas, in whatever form they appear.
R
I'm honored that you'd went to take a screenshot of those words! And sure enough, writers channel their stories just as architects channel their houses, and machinists channel their metal.
Nothing strange about that we all channel ideas, in whatever form they appear.
R
Richard Bach
The year was 1959 when first I had that startling event, when the wall disappeared. "Videos" hadn't been invented at that time, so "wide-screen Technicolor" was the best I knew to describe what had happened to me. I was aware that I had the green-ink ballpoint pen in my hand, and some letterhead that a friend had given me to write on. I did not have the sense of the cold of the air around me that actual flying would have given me. It was... well, it was as if the wall had vanished, and I saw everything that happened for the next ten minutes or so.
What you say happened to you was just what happened to me at the beginning of Jonathan Seagull. I'd correct that, though, and say it was not like seeing a video. It was almost as if I were there, watching a real event.
That's been true for me ever since, only lacking that breathtaking sudden awareness of being-there, that I experienced.
You are not crazy. Or it could be that you are crazy but so am I. And I agree with you: it seems to be some other expression of life who needs our typing skills and our vocabulary, to communicate what it knows. It's happy that our name is printed as author of the book and that it's us who spends the money that came from our strange experience.
What you say happened to you was just what happened to me at the beginning of Jonathan Seagull. I'd correct that, though, and say it was not like seeing a video. It was almost as if I were there, watching a real event.
That's been true for me ever since, only lacking that breathtaking sudden awareness of being-there, that I experienced.
You are not crazy. Or it could be that you are crazy but so am I. And I agree with you: it seems to be some other expression of life who needs our typing skills and our vocabulary, to communicate what it knows. It's happy that our name is printed as author of the book and that it's us who spends the money that came from our strange experience.
Richard Bach
Isn't that the way all of us write? The light we have shows our path for a only a sentence or two, but we believe that it will keep showing us what follows after that. Our dear Somewhere Else is so happy we've found the principle, that it promises it will work as long as we live.
Richard Bach
Like so many of us, the thought of a book, the idea of a Messiah that quit his job, simply appeared to me, and I thought it would be fun to write it down.
Richard Bach
What a powerful experience that is, when all at once our own understanding opens up and falls into place!
That's why some choose to be writers, instead of speakers or performers...the ideas they love are safe and they slip away from the limits of space and time.
Thank you for the thought, though. I'm happy alone, and no longer have readings or meetings.
That's why some choose to be writers, instead of speakers or performers...the ideas they love are safe and they slip away from the limits of space and time.
Thank you for the thought, though. I'm happy alone, and no longer have readings or meetings.
Richard Bach
I'd be honored by your choice to use that quote in your first book.
Richard Bach
Books are magnets. They bring readers who may never have been born when they were written. There's something about their magnetism that makes sense for people (like me) who are tired of the ominous, and who wish at last for some reason in our lives. Other readers may think the magnetism is crazy, but it works for us. That's what books are for.
Richard Bach
After so many rejections, all I wanted was for somebody to publish Jonathan. I loved the story, and hoped a few readers would love it, too. Great success was not in my power, but in the choice of the many readers I never knew existed.
Richard Bach
I don't know about summer, but right now I'm reading Michael Newton's "Destiny of Souls." Fascinating!
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