You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids’ books that I was reading. Andrew Sean Greer Read Quote
Other writers know what you’re going through, what you’re talking about when you write. Andrew Sean Greer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Story Of A Marriage’ was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the ’50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true. Andrew Sean Greer Read Quote
