Andrew Sean Greer

“There is nothing like that for the boys who did not go to war; they were not soldiers, and did not die.…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“...meaning his stuffed bear who was as real to him as his mother or me. Or else as imaginary.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

“I say this simply as a woman rattling the cage to be free. And what do I mean by free? Just to…

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Fuck love and just get fat.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

“More likable, make Swift more likable. That’s what everyone’s saying; nobody cares what this character suffers. But how do you do it?…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?”

— Andrew Sean Greer

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.

— Andrew Sean Greer

A lot of problems get solved in those sort of in-between moments when your subconscious has been working on some problem. If…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than…

— Andrew Sean Greer

There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I'm not despairing of love at all.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“New York is a city of eight million people, approximately seven million of whom will be furious when they hear you were…

— Andrew Sean Greer

To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm…

— Andrew Sean Greer

You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“There on the dune, beside the table, one of the camel boys has his arm around the other, and they sit there…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“We think we know the ones we love. Our husbands, our wives. We know them - we are them, sometimes; when separated…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“They have come dressed as robots or space goddesses or aliens because a writer has changed their lives.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

“It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or…

— Andrew Sean Greer