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“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

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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

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“To give up a marriage - someone unmarried might imagine it's like giving up a seat in a theater, or sacrificing a trick in bridge for the possibility of better, later. But it is harsher than anyone could realize: a hot invisible fire, burning pieces of hope and fantasy, and charred bits of the past. It had to go, however,…

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“Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems…

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

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“A rosewater smell from the box summoned, instantly, a dictatorial woman with a tight bun, hectoring him with questions. The cut, the buttons, the pockets, the collar. But most of all: the blue. Chosen in haste from a wall of fabrics: not an ordinary blue. Peacock? Lapis? Nothing gets close. Medium but vivid, moderately lustrous, definitely bold. Somewhere between ultramarine…

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

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I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

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

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