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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
Myself Character You Writing Thought Distract Singing Older Back Write Like Know Than Dylan Younger Bob Then Much Should Pages Now
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
Life Love Time Good Great You My Life Reading Become Imitate Books Way Kids Would Point Write Also Great Way Reader Sort Around Got Praise Want Stories Little Then Translating Found Thing Things Start Plays
Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of. Andy Weir
You Matter Few Thanks Incredibly Our Dream Easy Web Could Facts Come Era Subject Subject Matter Modern Modern Era Information Your Searches
Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again. Andy Weir
Moving Forward Light Space Before Tools Back Several Station Reliable Would Daunting Take Steps New Re-Examine Forces Undoubtedly Task Artificial Endure Again Moving Agencies Flight Forward Many Gravity Technologies Designing
I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15. Andy Weir
Age National Computer Hired Laboratory Programmer
I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can. Andy Weir
Time Good Knowledge Space Good Time Beginning Down Drawing Details Study Idea Mission End Sitting Getting Hobby Dynamics Many Right Imagine
You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it. Andy Weir
Knowledge You Will Someone Write Writer Read Audience Motivation Want Biggest
Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience. Andy Weir
You Tell Having More Knowing Audience Motivated Anyone Stories Your Prerequisite
My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base. Andy Weir
Love Great Me Science Father Moon Think Great Love He Base Designed Early
There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing. Andy Weir
Nothing Would Mars More Like Than Landing Manned Watch
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances. Andy Weir
People Will Invent Shifting Before Research Society Asteroid Distances Destinations Further Those Mars New Like New Technologies Send Orbit Manned Much Many Away Technologies Belt
The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity. Andy Weir
Space Live Evolve Clear Simply Missions Did Artificial Reason Zero Gravity Humans Need
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else. Andy Weir
You Else Everything Everything Else About Protagonist Reader Forgive Just Rooting
I don't take Mars One seriously at all. Andy Weir
Seriously Mars Take
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. Angela Carter
Life Death Matter Nothing Life And Death Except
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. Angela Carter
Day Argument Salt Like Without Egg
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. Angela Carter
Memories Old Our Come Nostalgia Vice Movies Aged Old Movies Many Watch
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. Angela Carter
Future Nothingness Say Those Must Hopes Hypothesis Contend Pin Which Your Now Here
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