Quotes by Thinking What'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 writingdiscoverythinking I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. Andre Dubus life-isjobsthinking I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. Andre Dubus creativitywritingthinking I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line. Andre Dubus love-youwritingthinking my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality. Andre Dubus simplephilosophythinking I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.' Andre Dubus griefdarkthinking If 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 careerswritingthinking I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more willing to step into an artistic exploration of that subject. All you can do is let it go Andre Dubus numberspeoplethinking I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way throughout my career, especially in college. Andre Ethier careerscollegethinking Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. Andre Gide maturityjudgementthinking Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else. Andre Gide foundthinking The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. Andre Gide broken-heartbreakupthinking Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else. Andre Gide foundthinking Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it? Andre Gide heartlongthinking The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating. Andre Gide dislike-mewonderfulthinking The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach. Andre Gide secretwritingthinking A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned Andre Gide menthinking I want to see more young filmmakers, and specifically filmmakers who have a unique voice. I wouldn't mind seeing less of the attempt to force-feed people what others think they want, if that makes sense - whatever the formula is that some people seem to operate under, like needing a certain star, or needing a certain thing in order to get a piece made. Andre Holland starsuniquethinking I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most. Andre Holland the-end-of-the-daypeoplethinking Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If they do talk about it, it is often talked about negatively. Nowadays in light of the Black Lives Matter movement I think people should pay attention to these lives also. I think the Black community will really embrace the film [Moonlight]. It is about us. It is real. Andre Holland lightrealthinking«189190191192193194195196197198199»
