Andre Dubus III Quotes

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Writing a poem is discovering.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.

I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.