Andre Dubus III Quotes

Andre Dubus III — American Writer born on August 11, 1936, died on February 24, 1999

Andre Dubus III is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

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.'

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.

Andre Dubus III Quotes

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