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21 quotes by Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III Dubus at a New York Barnes & Noble on October 15, 2013. Born September 11, 1959 Oceanside, California Occupation Novelist, short story writer, Professor Nationality American Education University of Texas at Austin, B.A. 1981 Notable works "The House of Sand and Fog", "Townie: A Memoir" Spouse Fontaine Dollas Dubus Website andredubus.com Andre Dubus III (born 1959) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a member...
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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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

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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.... →

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