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'A High Wind in Jamaica' is like those books you used to read under the covers with a flashlight - only infinitely more delicious... and macabre.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Books Covers Delicious High Infinitely Jamaica Like More Only Read Those Used Wind You

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My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Beehive Even Fashion Grandmother Hairdo Out Wore

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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

Topics: About Hit Hoping Say Stride They Say Writer You Your

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There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

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Topics: Look Mirror Must People Realize Times

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Every writer is an outsider.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Every Outsider Writer

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

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: About Going Know Other Talking Through Write Writers You

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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

Topics: Back Bob Character Distract Dylan Know Like Much Myself Now Older Pages Should Singing Than Then Thought Write Writing You Younger

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My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Grandmother Great Storyteller

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My country is nothing if not diverse.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Country Diverse Nothing

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Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Anxiety Dread Filled Innocence Look Papers People Reinventing Some Some People Think Time You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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