That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. — Andre Dubus Cowardice 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
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
“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.” — Andre Dubus Hard 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
“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?” — Andre Dubus Art 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 Desire 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,… — Andre Dubus Days 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 Disbelief 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
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
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
“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
“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
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. — Andre Dubus Defined Copy Share Image
“He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking.” — Andre Dubus Love Copy Share Image
I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. — Andre Dubus Believe Copy Share Image
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air. — Andre Dubus Air Copy Share Image
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself. — Andre Dubus Arms Copy Share Image
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of… — Andre Dubus Astronomy Copy Share Image
I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life. — Andre Dubus Believe Copy Share Image
We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever… — Andre Dubus Achieve Copy Share Image
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their… — Andre Dubus Believe 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 Captured Copy Share Image
Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went… — Andre Dubus Air Copy Share Image
“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read… — Andre Dubus Book Copy Share Image
We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's… — Andre Dubus All time 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 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/quotes/img-quotes/4aa/andre-dubus-13616_captured_i-think-what-i-love-most-about-writing-i_2143144.jpg)
