Quotes by Andre Dubus Iii - Page 1

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
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Expecting
Sometime
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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
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Be Careful
Confuse
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I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.
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Who Cares
Cares
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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
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Belief
Important
Narcissism
Shyness
Strange
Important Look People
Perform
Look Important People
Element
Look People Important
Look
Other
Truly
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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.
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Deeper
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
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Plot
Point Of View
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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
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Dinner
Frozen
Garlic
Resilience
Spam
Taste
Vegetables
Onion
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Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
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Dating
Dinner
Divorce
Sunday
Every Sunday
Picking
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I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.
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Brutal
Makeup
Sensitive
Frankly
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I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
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Dark
Fog
Sand
Tragedy
Surprised
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I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.
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Cold
Cycling
Occasional
Off Season
Oldest Son
Saturday
Sunday
Warm
Weather
Work Out
Oldest
Regime
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Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.
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Cry
Insensitive
Mediocre
Stupid
Deeply
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I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.
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Fog
Sand
Womb
Crack
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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.
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Good Fortune
Lovely
Life Work Good
Accidental
Joys
Masterful
Readers
Surprisingly
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There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.
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Cold
Compassionate
Experimentation
Postmodern
Falling
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I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.
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Left Wing
Passionate
Poor Man
Social Change
Degree
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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.'
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Descent
Grief
Noses
Requiem
Upbeat
Mozart
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If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.
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Advice
Publishing
Author
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I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.
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Creative Writing
Editors
Enemy
Marketplace
Publishing
Self Consciousness
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I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.
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Bartender
Distance
Glamour
Mansions
Red
Stars
Wonder
Corner
Movie Stars
Psyche
Red Carpets
Trips
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My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.
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Divorced
Fifteen
Mom Dad Me
Dad Mom Me
Occurred
Weekly
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