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If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road. — Andre Dubus III

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

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

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

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

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

Different people carry different toolboxes. — Andre Dubus III

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

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

She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it. — Andre Dubus III

Pop," I said, "isn't this shit vaulable?"
"Not to me, son. — Andre Dubus III

You've got to kill your darlings. — Andre Dubus III

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family. — Andre Dubus III

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

It's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you — Andre Dubus III

Regret was Fear's big sister, — Andre Dubus III

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

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

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

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don't write at all. — Andre Dubus III

For our excess we lost everything. — Andre Dubus III

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline. — Andre Dubus

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. — Andre Dubus III

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk. — Andre Dubus III

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

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

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

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art. — Andre Dubus III

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can't drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs. — Andre Dubus III

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father. — Andre Dubus III