Brilliant Quote 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Andrea Barrett

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Andrea Barrett

Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Andrea Barrett