Andre Dubus Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

  Andre Dubus

  Dad, Father, Writing

• I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'

  Andre Dubus

  Grief, Dark, Thinking

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

• The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

  Andre Dubus

  Joy, Sorrow, Life Is

• 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.

  Andre Dubus

  Short Love, Pain, Believe

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.81, Open Road Media

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