215 Quotes by Andrew Sean Greer

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

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

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.'

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.

My country is nothing if not diverse.

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

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.

It's funny how the present can change the past.