“The office was large, with many women and men at desks, and she learned their names, and presented to them an amiability she assumed upon entering the building. Often she felt that her smiles, and her feigned interest in people's… — 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 Image
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
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 Image
“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 Image
“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.” — 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 of us,… — 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 what we… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 hard to… — 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 in pain.… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
