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I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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I'm not despairing of love at all.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and we bound it and colored the front. And she wrote on mine, 'I can't wait till your real novel comes out. Give me a call.'

~Andrew Sean Greer

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I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

~Andrew Sean Greer

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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

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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