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
Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing… — 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
An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Her head jerked around. "It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“So tell me, gentlemen, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman?” Excerpt From: Andrew Sean… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“There is a truth that everyone knows but you. Each of us has it; no one is immune. Not a secret, not… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
You write three pages over six hours, and you don't feel like you've gotten anywhere, but if you've done a beautiful metaphor… — 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
