Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

American - Novelist | 1970 -

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.

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Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.

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It's hard to tell if I've had writer's block because it seems to me that it's when nothing comes, but, you know, every day you stare at that computer screen, and I think, 'It's never going to happen today. How can I write three pages?' And the hours pass, and they haven't shown up, and then at the very end it always happens, so it's willpower.

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Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.

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I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.

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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.

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An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.

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For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

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Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds.

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I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.

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My mother is a southern lady with short dark hair and a wary, blue-eyed smile. She is also an experimental chemist and teaches a college course entitled The Chemistry of Cooking.

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