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My mother is a southern lady with short dark hair and a wary, blue-eyed smile. She is also an experimental chemist and teaches a college course entitled The Chemistry of Cooking.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
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Blue-Eyed
Chemist
Chemistry
College
Cooking
Course
Dark
Dark Hair
Entitled
Experimental
Hair
Lady
Mother
She
Short
Smile
Southern
Teaches
Wary
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My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
About
Ask
Love
Me
Mother
People
Taught
Things
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My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Accumulate
Actually
First
First Place
Influences
Made
Me
My Own
Own
Place
Writer
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Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
About
Going
Know
Other
Talking
Through
Write
Writers
You
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Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Anyone
Draft
Finish
Going
Keep
Keep Going
Novelist
Really
Should
Show
Tell
Until
You
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Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Big
Big Deal
Deal
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Kid
Science
Science Fiction
Science Fiction Writers
Were
Writers
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Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Always
Books
Inspire
Latter
Looking
Read
Reasons
Selfish
Some
Write
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Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Anxiety
Dread
Filled
Innocence
Look
Papers
People
Reinventing
Some
Some People
Think
Time
You
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There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Look
Mirror
Must
People
Realize
Times
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There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is where I'm stupid.'
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Ability
Calculus
Certain
Certain Point
Chemistry
End
Point
Reached
Realized
Stupid
Where
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They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you wrote a musical, they would fully fund it and put it on the main stage with full costumes and a set and everything, and my roommate said we should totally do that.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Contest
Costumes
Everything
Full
Fully
Fund
Had
In The Past
Loved
Main
Musical
Musical Theater
Past
Put
Reason
Said
Set
Should
Some
Someone
Stage
Theater
Totally
Where
Would
Wrote
You
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They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
About
Hit
Hoping
Say
Stride
They Say
Writer
You
Your
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To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Back
Bob
Character
Distract
Dylan
Know
Like
Much
Myself
Now
Older
Pages
Should
Singing
Than
Then
Thought
Write
Writing
You
Younger
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To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
About
Actually
Book
Children
Heartless
High
How
Jamaica
Like
Make
Novel
Pirates
Say
Seem
Theme
Who
Wind
Wrong
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Travel is hard, and it's mostly not your fault.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Fault
Hard
Mostly
Travel
Your
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Usually on Sundays, I won't cook because I'll have dinner at my mom's. She's the provost of Mills College in Oakland and lives on campus. It's a very beautiful school in a very bad part of town.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Bad
Beautiful
Because
Campus
College
Cook
Dinner
Lives
Mills
Mom
Oakland
Part
School
She
Sundays
Town
Very
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With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Book
Each
Me
Something
Trying
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Act
Empathy
Fiction
Imaginative
Writing
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You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write about is the difficulty of the human experience. You don't want to lie about things to make happy endings and weddings if they don't deserve to happen. But I would be lying if I didn't try to communicate some of the pleasure of being alive.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
About
Alive
Because
Being
Books
Communicate
Course
Deserve
Difficulty
Endings
Every
Experience
Find
Happen
Happy
Human
Human Experience
Joy
Lie
Look
Lying
Make
Page
Particular
Pleasure
Some
Things
Try
Want
Weddings
Would
Would-Be
Write
You
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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
Also
Around
Become
Books
Found
Good
Got
Great
Great Way
Imitate
Kids
Life
Little
Love
My Life
Plays
Point
Praise
Reader
Reading
Sort
Start
Stories
Then
Thing
Things
Time
Translating
Want
Way
Would
Write
You
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