"Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it."
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Andre Dubus
Andre Jules Dubus II (August 11 1936 – February 24 1999) was an American short story writer, essayist, novelist and autobiographer.
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