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Andre Dubus quotes: That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

Andre Dubus quotes: I was trying to learn to write stories, and was reading O'Hara and Hemingway as a carpenter might look at an excellent house someone else has built.

I was trying to learn to write stories, and was reading O'Hara and Hemingway as a carpenter might look at an excellent house someone else has built.

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

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 quotes: He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking.

He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking.

Andre Dubus quotes: I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

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

Andre Dubus quotes: Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andre Dubus quotes: 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.

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 quotes: We don't have to live great lives, we just have to understand and survive the ones we've got.

We don't have to live great lives, we just have to understand and survive the ones we've got.

Andre Dubus quotes: Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

Andre Dubus quotes: I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Andre Dubus quotes: It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.

Andre Dubus quotes: Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Andre Dubus quotes: What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

Andre Dubus quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

Andre Dubus quotes: I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

Andre Dubus quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

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

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

Andre Dubus quotes: Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you'll see in your arms is yourself.

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