Andrew Greeley Quotes

For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people who are interested in my music is extremely important to me. That connection is like the pillar in everything I do. I want to embrace that connection and make it stronger.

Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

I like meeting and connecting with readers.

I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Citizenship is a lifetime job.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

I just like to have fun with the fans.

If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved.

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

Clergymen do well to preach the neglected doctrine that the first duty of a citizen is to consider what he can do for the state and not what the state will do for him.

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

I come from a town of 3 thousand people. If I didn't go someone else would have to go in my place.

I feel like it's very important to connect with the people who are passionate about what I'm doing.

I think you have a duty and a responsibility to entertain. We have to always remember that there's a public to be entertained.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

We want to encourage people to talk to one another.

Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.