Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.' — 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
“They have come dressed as robots or space goddesses or aliens because a writer has changed their lives.” — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write. — 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
For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at. — 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
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
It's hard to tell if I've had writer's block because it seems to me that it's when nothing comes, but, you know,… — 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
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
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
