Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautiganwas an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy, parody, and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 January 1935
CountryUnited States of America
moving might parades
We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
fall two storm
The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.
one-day and-love dies
One day Time will die And love will bury it
beautiful dark water
A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.
body maps your-body
Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
new-orleans firsts sixteen
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
beautiful forsaken
God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
country morning ocean
This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.
I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.
beautiful rain writing
Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!
writing thinking years
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
thinking names long
If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.
perfect ponds wonder
I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.
mother daughter thinking
I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.