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Certainly there will always be stories.

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Lynne Tillman
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Certainly
Stories
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I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.
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I think the slowness of exchange is over, and the idea of waiting for a response - that's gone. People don't want to wait. It's all this instantaneity. That's fine. But it also makes writing different, if you're writing for an instant exchange compared with being able to have time for more reflection.
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That's why our comics are important: they're pointing things out and laughing at the same time. There have been horrible, horrible times in history. They're mostly horrible times. But not to laugh? Not to find humor in something like dark optimism/bright pessimism - I think that's sad, frankly.
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There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.
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I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.
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I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a friend, you're going to keep going back to that conversation.
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Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.
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I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.
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I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.
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Obviously the Internet makes everything easier - you get people's addresses and so on and everything seems much more accessible.
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Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.
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It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But I don't want it to be meaningless. I want it to actually say what I want it to say, and so I'm thinking about it again and again and again.
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Now that I'm an older woman, I'm so much more aware of the changes - almost too aware. I feel sorry for being so dismissive. You have to think about what you're thinking about and realize that you're thinking it.
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I think some people are not interesting to themselves. They're the sad, resigned folk. When people call themselves ordinary - I'm just an ordinary person - you do wonder what they mean, because people who call themselves ordinary occasionally turn out to be serial killers. Beware of those who say they're ordinary.
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Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.
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I'm not interested in safety. A great risk in writing is imagining you have something to protect. Playing it safe to placate someone or something. People talk about compromise, but often people don't even know when they're compromising, because they're not conscious of contradictions.
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As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
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I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic.
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Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.
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I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, Your characters aren't likeable. It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.
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