Quotes by Andre Dubus

Andre Dubus

After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.

Grief

Pain

Soul

And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I’d lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.

Real

Writing

Years

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character’s point of view and see where it goes.

Character

Philosophy

Writing

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 write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit.

Care

Writing

Years

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

Writing

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

Arms

Fear

Ghost

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Tonight

Twenties

Useless

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

Believe

Pain

Short Love

I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it’s self-consciousness.

Creativity

Thinking

Writing

I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you’re doing, you’re not doing it as well as you can. Don’t think about publishing, don’t think about editors, don’t think about marketplace.

Creativity

Eye

Writing

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Arms

Art

Attention

Authenticity

Be Careful

Beautiful

Believe

Black And White

Book

Care

Character

Choices

Creativity

Cutting

Dad

Dream

Effort

Eye

Fall

Father

Fear

Fog

Ghost

Gratitude

Grief

Hard

Heart

Ifs

Jobs

Joy

Life Is

Littles

Loss

Love You

Moments

Normal

Pain

Philosophy

Real

School

Self

Short Love

Sorrow

Soul

Sports

Teaching

Thinking

Tonight

Twenties

Useless

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Quotes by Andre Dubus

Andre Dubus

After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character’s point of view and see where it goes.

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 write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit.

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it’s self-consciousness.

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