Top 10 Andrea Barrett Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Andrea Barrett Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except wh

There’s actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
Andrea Barrett
Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There’s a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don’t have the disease feel safer.
Andrea Barrett
Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I’ve been really lucky to know her. She’s a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.
Andrea Barrett
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don’t. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It’s a hard way to learn to write. I don’t recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.
Andrea Barrett
I’ve never been to a black-tie thing in my life. I didn’t even go to my prom.
Andrea Barrett
By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That’s actually when I started writing, although I didn’t think of it then as something I might someday do.
Andrea Barrett
I’ve always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.
Andrea Barrett
I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don’t even understand.
Andrea Barrett
I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn’t live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.
Andrea Barrett
All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive – this has to do with me, I know, and not the books – in a way that some people aren’t. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.
Andrea Barrett