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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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Believe
#Care
#Family
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Makeup
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#Think
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Matter
#Point Of View
#View
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Start
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Book
#Careful
#Personal
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Dark
#Sand
#Success
#Trying
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.
- Andre Dubus III
#Cry
#Feel
#Stupid
#Time
#Wrong
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.'
- Andre Dubus III
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#Darkness
#Feel
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#Me
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Son
#Weather
#Week
#Work
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Never
#Sand
#Talk
#Wife
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
#Dinner
#Imagination
#Vegetables
#Week
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Sometime
#Somewhere
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Doing
#Enemy
#Human
#Mirror
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Go
#Interesting
#Job
#Questions
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
- Andre Dubus III
#Belief
#Important
#Look
#People
#Strange
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Man
#Political
#Romantic
#Work
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.
- Andre Dubus III
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#Dating
#Dinner
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