You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“And life is but a dream.... Things happened in life, and you felt them, but it was all in your mind, the… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“At 9:15 on Thursday morning, June 4, while Jordan Delreese was bludgeoning his two young children to death, I was sitting in Dr. Hamburger's… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.” — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the details, see… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
