Latest Andre Dubus Quotes from Interviews

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• As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.

  Andre Dubus

  Bullying, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

• People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.

  Andre Dubus

  Tired, People, Listening

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

• I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

  Andre Dubus

  Essence, Looks, Way

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

• Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So I have to have fine line between teaching and writing. I try not to ever think of career. I just try to go to the dream world every day.

  Andre Dubus

  Dream, Teaching, Writing

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

• I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

  Andre Dubus

  Teacher, Class, Sound

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

• We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

  Andre Dubus

  Choices, Normal, Authenticity

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

• I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

  Andre Dubus

  Wife, Crash, Curious

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

• I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

  Andre Dubus

  Jobs, Thinking, Life Is

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

• I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more willing to step into an artistic exploration of that subject. All you can do is let it go

  Andre Dubus

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

• My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

  Andre Dubus

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com

• I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Years, Desire

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com