Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

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• That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.

  

  Maluma
  • Time
  • Free
  • Moments

• Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Long
  • Success
  • Technology

• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Cloud

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • School
  • Know
  • Bright

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Know
  • Horse
  • Racing

• Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Jesus
  • Fight
  • Grace

• My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Job

• Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Eyes
  • Blue
  • Blonde

• You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Protect

• There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Work
  • Love
  • Night

• There are some fantastic parts for older actors.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Fantastic
  • Some
  • Parts

• The reality is different. They are so matured as far as democracy is concerned, they rejected the color TV promised by Congress. They rejected the color TV, and they accepted a person who says that I'll serve the notice to tax evaders. And this is the strength of the democracy.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Democracy

• Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Good
  • Education
  • Question

• Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

  

  David Letterman
  • People
  • Great
  • Water

• You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.

  

  Eva Green
  • Art
  • Sexy
  • Screen

• I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer