Andrew Sean Greer

Every writer is an outsider. ”

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners. ”

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

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

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

A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one. ”

I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals. ”

Human love and desire is my bag. ”

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful. ”

I'm not despairing of love at all. ”