Richard Bach
Richard Bach
Richard David Bach is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some hugely popular 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagulland Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Bach has authored numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including Oneand Out of My Mind...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 June 1936
CountryUnited States of America
ideas lovely unwritten
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten
needs teach
You teach best that which you need most to learn.
letting-go magic stronger
If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.
stories enjoy
True enjoy stories never ever have endings.
numbers perfection limits
Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.
certain illusions-of-life turns
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
nature civilization wrecks
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
war fire lines
I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
adventurous-life long realizing
I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.
given whole-life persons
You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?
healing creative healthy
The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.
fire perfection littles
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
life change home
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
twenties hours minutes
How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.