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I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me. — John Dufresne

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless? — John Dufresne

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had. — John Dufresne

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved. — John Dufresne

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did. — John Dufresne

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story. — John Dufresne

I learned to love stories by listening to them. — John Dufresne

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft. — John Dufresne

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential. — John Dufresne

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble. — John Dufresne

I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good. — John Dufresne

Place is character. And all writing is regional. — John Dufresne

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written. — John Dufresne

Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done. — John Dufresne

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up. — John Dufresne

We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers. — John Dufresne

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place. — John Dufresne

With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word. — John Dufresne

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood. — John Dufresne

Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose. — John Dufresne

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right. — John Dufresne

Every person in therapy has a love disorder. — John Dufresne

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me. — John Dufresne

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. - St. Augustine — John Dufresne

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable. — John Dufresne

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety. — John Dufresne

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves. — John Dufresne

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story. — John Dufresne

Memory is a rascal. — John Dufresne

Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other — John Dufresne

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it. — John Dufresne