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'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
Books
Covers
Delicious
High
Infinitely
Jamaica
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Only
Read
Those
Used
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A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Being
Downside
Imagine
Novelist
Successful
Wow
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A lot of problems get solved in those sort of in-between moments when your subconscious has been working on some problem. If you keep it spinning, you can fix ideas sometimes better than if you focus on them directly.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Been
Better
Directly
Fix
Focus
Get
Has-Been
Ideas
In-Between
Keep
Lot
Moments
Problem
Problems
Solved
Some
Sometimes
Sort
Spinning
Subconscious
Than
Them
Those
Working
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An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Ad
College
Does
Elephant
Every
Every Time
Funeral
Home
Kid
Leaving
Leaving Home
Makes
Me
Time
Weep
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Any gay man in America redeals a deck at some point.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
America
Any
Deck
Gay
Man
Point
Some
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Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Atheist
Atheists
Both
Both My Parents
Brother
Grandmother
Kentucky
Lot
Make
Mean
Nature
Parents
Rural
Science
Sure
Teach
Too
Trying
Us
Were
Which
Wonder
Worked
World
Would
Would-Be
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Can you call and thank reviewers? I always wondered that.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Always
Call
Reviewers
Thank
Wondered
You
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Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Clear
Could
Critics
How
Love
Minds
Sentimental
Word
Would
You
Your
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Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Because
Condensed
Definitely
Doing
Harder
I Think
Inspires
Job
Just
Me
More
Much
Next
Openly
Poetry
Same
Steal
Talented
Them
Think
Time
Which
Writing
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During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
About
Answer
Book
Break
Breakdown
Couch
Eventually
Every
Fix
How
Just
Least
Nervous
Nervous Breakdown
Thing
Through
Two
Two-Thirds
Way
Week
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Every writer is an outsider.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Every
Outsider
Writer
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For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Back
Being
Hold
Risk
Sentimental
Take
Weird
Writers
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Human love and desire is my bag.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Bag
Desire
Human
Human Love
Love
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I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways people do things are equally accurate ways to do things. Someone else just came up with something different.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Accurate
American
Came
Different
Differently
Done
Else
Equally
Just
Other
Parts
People
Someone
Something
Things
Think
Understand
Up
Ways
World
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I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
About
Blogs
Friends
Literary
Read
Talk
Them
Upsetting
Used
Way
Would
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I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Activist
Gay
Think
Used
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I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Artists
Communal
Feel
I Feel
I Feel Like
Like
Much
Pretty
Think
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I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Grew
Me
Much
Shaped
Suburbs
Think
Up
Very
Which
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I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
About
Adult
Boy
Gangs
Guess
Had
Heard
Never
New
Novels
Something
Teenage
Town
Which
Young
Young Adult
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I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Bad
Before
Did
Good
I Think
Kind
Know
Lot
Loved
Meant
Meanwhile
Novel
Novelist
Novels
Pattern
Publishing
Short
Short Stories
Stories
Then
Think
Thought
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