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I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Activist Gay Think Used

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I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Ever Fiction Get Hardest Like Non-Fiction Place Things Think Those Understand I Think

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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

Topics: Ad College Does Elephant Every Every Time Funeral Home Kid Leaving Leaving Home Makes Me Time Weep

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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

Topics: Back Being Hold Risk Sentimental Take Weird Writers

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I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Come Conclusion Criticism Emotion Itself Lazy Sentimentality Term Then

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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

Topics: Also 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

Topics: About Ask Love Me Mother People Taught Things

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Any gay man in America redeals a deck at some point.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: America Any Deck Gay Man Point Some

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I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: About Bullies Novel Novels School Would Write

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My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Accumulate Actually First First Place Influences Made Me My Own Own Place Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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