54 Quotes by John Dufresne
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Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.
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You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don’t even know it.
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Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It’s love that’s essential.
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In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It’s when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.
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It’s easier to write about a place sometimes when you’ve left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.
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What you create when you’re teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It’s a place to have a conversation about a story.
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If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you’ve made up.
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There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
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I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip – I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer’s job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.
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