I’ve noticed that it tends to go better for me, creatively/artistically speaking, if I know very little before I begin.
Andre Dubus III
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Email conversation with Meg Wolitzer, Literary Hub via W.W. Norton (October 30, 2018); Full original email conversation read and cached. Dubus’s own statement about starting a novel, distinguished from surrounding quotations of other writers. Complete sentence; 21 words counting slash boundary.
- Email conversation with Meg Wolitzer, Literary Hub via W.W. Norton (October 30, 2018)
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