Killings by andre dubus book quotes

“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.”
― Andre Dubus

“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”
― Andre Dubus

“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.”
― Andre Dubus

“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.”
― Andre Dubus, Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays

“Don't quit.

It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's ve