I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — 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… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
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… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in… — 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
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest… — 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)
