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Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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

Andrew Sean Greer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Weird Back Risk Sentimental Hold

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Alone Great Organization Wrong Right

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

Skitch Henderson

Business Now Strange Right Recording

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

Health Society Poverty You Wealth

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.

Family Change School Parents College

There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.

Honor Long Person Play Will Him

I'm always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with.

Work Talent Find Scout New Try

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

Dorothy Allison

Son Childhood Past Child Me Wolf

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

Music Better You Now Quit Ground

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Beauty Pain Look Place Personal Own

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

Willie Stargell

Men Game Loved Line Hit Base

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

Know Global Warming Global Jack Penn

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

Norman Rockwell

Beginning Possible Capture Right Saw

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