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

Quote by Andre Dubus

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Andre Dubus is an American novelist known for his profound emotional portrayal and realistic style. His works often focus on the inner world of ordinary people and their interpersonal relationships, particularly skilled at depicting conflicts and resolutions within families and intimate relationships. more

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“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.”

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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 think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.”

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“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 love.”

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Book:The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories

Source: The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories

“One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.”

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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, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.”

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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. 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.'”

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“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.”

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

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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, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.”

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“Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.”

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Book:Looking Back

Source: Looking Back