Andre Dubus III

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

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These are some quotes by American author Andre Dubus III Writer, who lived between August 11, 1936 and February 24, 1999.

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

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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

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

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