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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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Memory is a rascal.
— John Dufresne
