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
“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
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
“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
My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in… — Andre Dubus Absolutes Copy Share Image
“I sing of those who cannot. To view human suffering as an abstraction, as a statement about how plucky we all are,… — Andre Dubus Human suffering 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
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
Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest… — Andre Dubus Done 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
“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
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
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Book 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
“What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held… — Andre Dubus Divorce Copy Share Image
my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must… — Andre Dubus Belief Copy Share Image
“There were three of these women, separated by short intervals of pain, remorse, and despair. When he and the last one had… — Andre Dubus Love 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
Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous:… — Andre Dubus Able Copy Share Image
I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air. — 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
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