I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have… — Andre Dubus Effects 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 Consciousness 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 Buried 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… — Andre Dubus Human nature Copy Share Image
“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.” — Andre Dubus Hard 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 Common 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 Fiction Copy Share Image
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. — Andre Dubus Defined 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… — Andre Dubus Class 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… — Andre Dubus Awful 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… — Andre Dubus Love Sex 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… — Andre Dubus Spending time 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 Care 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 Fear Copy Share Image
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,… — Andre Dubus Despair Copy Share Image
I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more… — Andre Dubus Artistic 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 Essence 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 Crash 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 Action Copy Share Image
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. — Andre Dubus Cowardice 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 Ceremony Copy Share Image
People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not… — Andre Dubus Fronts 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 Believe in love 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 Ability Copy Share Image
