Andrew Greeley Quotes

All fiction is fantasy, a narrative of a world and people created by the storyteller's imagination.
— Andrew Greeley in The New York Times

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We're given second chances every day of our life.  We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
— Andrew Greeley The Baltimore Sun

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Fantasy is not merely a distinct genre.  All fiction is fantasy, a narrative of a world and people created by the storyteller's imagination.
— Andrew Greeley Writers on Writing: More Collected Essays From the New York Times

My world and my people leap out of the soup of my preconscious, the ever-flowing, ever-changing reservoir of bits and pieces of memory that my consciousness is always scanning.
— Andrew Greeley Writers on Writing: More Collected Essays From the New York Times

The storyteller is a pale metaphor, I have often thought, for God who creates our world and us, falls in love with his creatures, even obsesses over us because we don't act right, and always reserves the right to say the final word.
— Andrew Greeley in The New York Times

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