I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Every book it's the hardest part-finding the way in, finding the voice to tell the story. H” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
'A High Wind in Jamaica' is like those books you used to read under the covers with a flashlight - only infinitely… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.' — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“We think we know the ones we love. Our husbands, our wives. We know them - we are them, sometimes; when separated… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Then I traveled. Quite a bit, in fact. You have to stockpile a few beautiful vistas in your memory, Pearlie. In case we're rationed… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“To give up a marriage - someone unmarried might imagine it's like giving up a seat in a theater, or sacrificing a trick in… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“A rosewater smell from the box summoned, instantly, a dictatorial woman with a tight bun, hectoring him with questions. The cut, the buttons, the… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
