Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I don't read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn't like a movie, I can't keep his criticisms in mind the next time I am making a film. Even if someone writes a great review about my film, I don't want to be affected by it.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

The validity of doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

I don't pay attention to critics.

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.

I don't read reviews.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

I think I just say what I'm thinking. And - you know, if people relate to it, they relate to it, but - I really - you know, if you really listen to me, I don't have my finger on any pulse.

'Stans' can not see anything wrong with their favorite artist. They love everything they do. If the artist fart, they're like, 'OMG, that was the best-sounding fart I ever heard in my life. She farted on beat,' whatever. I'm an 'objective fan,' so I can give my opinion about things.

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.