American - Novelist | 1970 -
With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.
Andrew Sean Greer
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'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.
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You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
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