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
I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that. — 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
“...meaning his stuffed bear who was as real to him as his mother or me. Or else as imaginary.” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
My mother is a southern lady with short dark hair and a wary, blue-eyed smile. She is also an experimental chemist and… — 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
