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
real character practice
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
choices remember life-decision
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
animal light talking
In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.
life fear listening
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
practice jonathan-livingston-seagull jonathan-seagull
Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
reality thinking use-it-or-lose-it
Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
airplane sky flying
When you're flying, an airplane doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care how much money you make or don't make. All it cares about is: How well do you fly? How well do you know the airplane? How well do you know the sky?
sight views humanity
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.
learning sometimes make-sense
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
choices design power-of-choice
We design our lives through the power of choices.
numbers profound people
To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.
body jonathan-livingston-seagull break
Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
firsts sense-of-humor prerequisites
The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.
believe airplane men
The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.