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Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people through his humor, wisdom and insight.

With over 60 million copies of his books sold, Richard Bach remains one of the world's most beloved authors. A former USAF fighter pilot, Air Force captain and latter-day barnstorming pilot, Bach continues to be an avid aviator-author, exploring and chronicling the joys and freedom of flying, reporting his findings to readers.

His most recent works include Travels with Puff, which recounts Bach's journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane, Puff, and Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant S
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Richard Bach Listen to your consciousness from twenty years in the future. Listen to the writer you will be and his or her magnificent life, listen to how she/he t…moreListen to your consciousness from twenty years in the future. Listen to the writer you will be and his or her magnificent life, listen to how she/he thanks you for not quitting today.

How brave that writer, now a memory for me, how well he lived the tests of his life!

Rejections? So what? He sent his stories and his books immediately to other publishers, until they sold.

He kept writing. He knew that I could be his future, and his unswerving tenacity then was his gift for me.

What's my gift for him? This life, the one he imagined, the one I live today, and which I share with a few million readers who still enjoy the ideas he wrote, and the ones still hidden in his future. (less)
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“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― Richard Bach

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
― Richard Bach

Polls

June 2016 Short Story Poll

 
  50 votes, 25.0%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 122 pages, 1879
 
  48 votes, 24.0%

 
  41 votes, 20.5%

 
  13 votes, 6.5%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923
 
  13 votes, 6.5%

Anthem by Ayn Rand, 105 pages, 1938
 
  10 votes, 5.0%

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West, 80 pages, 1933
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, 105 pages, 1907
 
  6 votes, 3.0%

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell, 50 pages, 1917
 
  6 votes, 3.0%

 
  5 votes, 2.5%

 
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