Andre Dubus Believe Quotations

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live,

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.