Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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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• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  

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• I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

  

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• I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

  

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• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

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• I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

  

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• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

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• As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

  

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• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

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• It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

  

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• I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.

  

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• Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.

  

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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.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
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