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I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

Andre Dubus
Believe, Earth, Too Much
Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.61, Open Road Media

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.

Andre Dubus
Writing, Thinking, Careers

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
Running, Sunday, Son
"The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Andre Dubus
Book, Attention, Be Careful
"The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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
Mom, Dad, Reading

Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

Andre Dubus
Book, Cutting, Twenties
Andre Dubus (2011). “Meditations from a Movable Chair”, p.49, Vintage

Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

Andre Dubus
Daughter, Morning, New York
Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.25, Open Road Media

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
Children, Father, Divorce
Andre Dubus III (2011). “Townie: A Memoir”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more willing to step into an artistic exploration of that subject. All you can do is let it go

Andre Dubus
Thinking, Numbers, People
Source: entertainmentrealm.com

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

Andre Dubus
Teacher, Class, Sound
Source: entertainmentrealm.com

People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.

Andre Dubus
Tired, People, Listening
Source: entertainmentrealm.com

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