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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

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Travel is hard, and it's mostly not your fault.

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Human love and desire is my bag.

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I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

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I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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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

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I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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Can you call and thank reviewers? I always wondered that.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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