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 DubusWhat is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
Andre DubusThere are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feelโitโs that postmodern thingโitโs more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human beingโs experience.
Andre DubusI'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 DubusIf 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