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> [I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/i-wanted-to-be-a-scientist-my-undergraduate-degree-is-in-biology-and/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

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## More by Andrea Barrett

> [“It was through Peter that she first understood that the world existed before her, without her. For a few days she could not forgive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/it-was-through-peter-that-she-first-understood-that-the-world-existed/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/i-grew-up-on-cape-cod-we-didn-t-live-right-on-the-water-but-i-could/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/the-thing-i-m-particularly-interested-in-is-natural-history-in-its/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/by-junior-high-i-was-a-horrible-student-but-during-my-sophomore-year/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/i-think-the-landscape-you-grow-up-in-probably-does-mark-you-in-ways/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/it-s-hard-to-explain-how-much-one-can-love-writing-if-people-knew-how/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/i-wanted-to-be-a-scientist-my-undergraduate-degree-is-in-biology-and/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/i-ve-never-known-a-writer-who-didn-t-feel-ill-at-ease-in-the-world-we/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/adrianne-harun-s-dark-mysterious-novel-is-by-turns-gothic-and/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [“He thought back but Bianca, her foot heavy on the accelerator, thought away . From Rose, their mother, their entire past, books and papers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/he-thought-back-but-bianca-her-foot-heavy-on-the-accelerator-thought/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/i-m-not-adopted-but-that-longing-and-that-sense-of-absence-are/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/margot-livesey-my-dear-friend-reads-all-the-drafts-of-what-i-write/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [“Slowly, I began to relearn something I’d once grasped but had lost sight of: that emotion—that central element of fiction—derives not from information or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/slowly-i-began-to-relearn-something-i-d-once-grasped-but-had-lost/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/i-read-a-lot-very-passionately-from-the-time-i-was-very-young-but-it/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

> [There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-barrett/there-s-actually-nothing-interesting-about-me-except-what-i-write/)

[Andrea Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-barrett/)

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