“He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking.” — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“There were three of these women, separated by short intervals of pain, remorse, and despair. When he and the last one had… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“So many of us fail: we divorce our wives and husbands, we leave the roofs of our lovers, go once again into… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus Copy Share
After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
“There’s something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot…It’s significant…Because somebody has to take them in…And if you… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. — Andre Dubus Copy Share
I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher. — Andre Dubus Copy Share
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
“When Jennifer was here in the summer, they were at the house most days. I would say generally that as they got older they… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
“The office was large, with many women and men at desks, and she learned their names, and presented to them an amiability she assumed… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
“Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended in pain.… — Andre Dubus Copy Share
![“I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get…” quote by Andre Dubus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4aa/andre-dubus-13616_captured_i-think-what-i-love-most-about-writing-i_2143144.png)
