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I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Art Deeper Get Go Interesting Job More Questions Think You I Think

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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 where it goes.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Character Ever Goes Matter Philosophy Plot Point Point Of View See Story Try View Where Write Writing

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

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Expecting Father Sometime Somewhere Stopped

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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 Iii

Topics: About Advice Author Care Career Done Easier Ever Find Just Percent Publishing Put Said Than Think Way Will Would Writer Writing You Yourself

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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.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Belief Element How Important Look Narcissism Other People Perform Shyness Strange Truly

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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.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: About After Around Aware Close Dad Divorced Each Favorite Fifteen He Him His Kind Live Me Mom Occurred Other Reading Really Saw Special Start Still Ten Then Though Until Weekly Writer Writers Writing

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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 of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: About Better Change College Degree Fiction Got Guy Kind Left-Wing Make Man Much Passionate Political Poor Poor Man Pretty Read Romantic Social Social Change Sociology Some Things Type Very Wanted Work

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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 Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: About Crack Entire Everyone Fog Four House Just Keep Never Sand Saw Talk Then Those Who Wife Womb Word Working Writers Writing Years

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

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Attention Be Careful Book Careful Confuse Going Personal Towards Writers

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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.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Because Believe Book Dark Fog Had Head House Never Really Sand Success Surprised Tragedy Trying Word Write Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 11th, 1936

Died: February 24th, 1999

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