Book Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

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

They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“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

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“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

“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

“We're too old to think we'll meet again.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

“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

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.

— Andrew Sean Greer

My country is nothing if not diverse.

— Andrew Sean Greer