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Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

American - Novelist | 1970 -

Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.

Andrew Sean Greer

Looking Selfish Inspire Write Always

'A High Wind in Jamaica' is like those books you used to read under the covers with a flashlight - only infinitely more delicious... and macabre.

Andrew Sean Greer

Wind You More High Used Delicious

My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.

Andrew Sean Greer

Fashion Grandmother Out Even Beehive

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

Andrew Sean Greer

You Say They Say Writer Your Hit

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

Andrew Sean Greer

Mirror People Look Realize Must

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

Andrew Sean Greer

Think Feel Pretty Artists Like Much

Every writer is an outsider.

Andrew Sean Greer

Outsider Writer Every

Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.

Andrew Sean Greer

Talking You Know Write Going About

To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'

Andrew Sean Greer

Character Myself Writing Singing You

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

Andrew Sean Greer

Great Grandmother Storyteller

My country is nothing if not diverse.

Andrew Sean Greer

Country Nothing Diverse

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

Andrew Sean Greer

Time People Think Anxiety Innocence

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