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The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

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A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

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At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

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Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

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Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but to open up and discover. The energetic prose comes about from all the energy that went into crafting it, I suppose.

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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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The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

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I'll think of you after I'm dead if I can.

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John Dufresne

John Dufresne

Born: January 30, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: John Dufresne is an American author of French Canadian descent born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Worcester State College in 1970 and the University of Arkansas in 1984.
Known for:
  1. No Regrets, Coyote (2013)
  2. Louisiana Power & Light (1994)
  3. The Lie That Tells a Truth (2003)
  4. Deep in the shade of paradise (2002)

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