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.
As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried ver… - Andre Dubus
As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried ver…
- Andre Dubus
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself. - Andre Dubus
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. - Andre Dubus
I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of l… - Andre Dubus
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of l…
What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? - Andre Dubus
What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
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 wher… - Andre Dubus
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 wher…
I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved. - Andre Dubus
I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad. - Andre Dubus
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it. - Andre Dubus
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.
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