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When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.

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Lynne Tillman
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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When you free women so they can choose to have or not to have, or to conceive - that's something that, for millennia, women couldn't do. Biology was, in many ways, destiny. We wouldn't be talking about gender if women could not control their pregnancies.
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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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You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic.
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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 like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.
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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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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 think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.
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I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.
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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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I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.
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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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The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.
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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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I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.
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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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Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.
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I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.
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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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I'm the author of my own misery.
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