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
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 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
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
Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went… — Andre Dubus 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 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 Copy Share Image
