American - Novelist | 1970 -
Human love and desire is my bag.
Andrew Sean Greer
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I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.
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I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals.
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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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Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.
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I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.
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Can you call and thank reviewers? I always wondered that.
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A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.
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Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.
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I never wanted to be a scientist.
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I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.
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They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you wrote a musical, they would fully fund it and put it on the main stage with full costumes and a set and everything, and my roommate said we should totally do that.
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