Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

- 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…

- 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

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

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Andre Dubus

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

- Andre Dubus