“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
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved. — 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
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“You can always tell a happy marriage. People in love begin to acquire each other's traits, each other's styles- they begin to… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone… — 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
