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Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer

American Novelist

Born: 1970

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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

You Stride Say Hoping About Writer Hit Your They Say

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners. Andrew Sean Greer

Think Pretty Feel Like Artists Communal Much

Every writer is an outsider. Andrew Sean Greer

Every Writer Outsider

Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write. Andrew Sean Greer

You Other About Through Write Writers Know Talking Going

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

My country is nothing if not diverse. Andrew Sean Greer

Country Nothing Diverse

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me. Andrew Sean Greer

Me Book Something Trying Each

It's funny how the present can change the past. Andrew Sean Greer

Funny Change Past How Present

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy. Andrew Sean Greer

Writing Empathy Fiction Act Imaginative

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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