Comments on: Interview: John Dufresne, Author

By: hector valles

hector valles — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:55:12 +0000

Time passes, I sit down in the desk in the kitchen and things come forth so slowly… What is left of my hauter and the writing process. Hector

By: edfine

edfine — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:44:49 +0000

A wonderful, wry voice with much heart and a profound and transparent love of language that is tremendously engaging. A collector of the English language with delightful idioms, turns of phrase, and even puns displayed on sharp little pins – what a joy to read him. The magical stories told in his unique prose does indeed qualify his work as great literature, at least to this reader.

By: Hector Valles

Hector Valles — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:52:48 +0000

Probably I exaggerate things which is not the fair thing to do with John’s enormous generosity to his students. I have a doctorate in Spanish Literature, but in all reality I would be very happy to assist John’s novel writing class from which there is no telling what I could learn. The craft of writing, that’s what I would like to know more off. I think it’s sophomoric on my part at times to go about doing it without John’s, again, generosity.

By: Hector Valles

Hector Valles — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:55:40 +0000

John is a great teacher if he likes what you do. However, he is problematic, like an artist should be. I’m under the delusion that even though John is a great writer he doesn’t have anything like Memorias Del Sanatorio, or La fuga, or a collection of stories like Cuentos de la Ciudad Ahogada which I have penned with the help of John’s writing workshop but are just as good if not better. Although in Spanish.
Hector Valles

By: defoc

defoc — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:12:46 +0000

John Dufresne is a terrific storyteller.His books should be on everyone’s lips that
appreciate and care about great literature.Doubts?Just read’The Lies That Tell the
Truth,’and tell me the man doesn’t understand how to use language as a metaphor
for our daily lives,how we live them and how al our lives are stories either already,or waiting to be written.For the love of words…

By: aditya

aditya — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:20:23 +0000

its very good