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
design intention states
Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being...
rights claims
We don't have rights until we claim them.
ignorance safety
To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.
airplane joy understanding
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.
thinking law wish
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
writing character typewriters
When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.
thinking watches answers
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.
silly air rumor
A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…
lying book writing
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
beautiful character choices
Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.
teacher real teaching
Every real teacher is myself in disguise.
grief flying sorrow
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
immortality one-thing destroyed
The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.
book reading may
Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual