I think what I love most about writing is that feeling that you really nailed something. I rarely feel it with a whole piece, but sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.
—Andre Dubus
Topics: Authors & Writing
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
—Andre Dubus
Topics: Despair
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
—Andre Dubus
Topics: Confidence
What’s so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.
—Andre Dubus
Topics: Authors & Writing
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- William H. Gass American Novelist
- Eudora Welty American Short Story Writer
- Damon Runyon American Writer, Journalist
- V. S. Pritchett British Short Story Writer
- Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) British Short Story Writer
- Anton Chekhov Russian Short Story Writer
- Katherine Mansfield British Author
- Isaac Asimov American Novelist, Critic, Popular Scientist
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer
- Ursula K. Le Guin Science-fiction writer
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