My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.
Andre DubusI love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.
Andre DubusI read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.
Andre DubusWhat's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.
Andre Dubus