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Lynne Tillman
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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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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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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There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.
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I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.
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Certainly there will always be stories.
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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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Laughing and crying are very similar. Sometimes people go from laughing to crying, or crying to laughing. I remember being at someone's wedding and she couldn't stop laughing, through the whole ceremony. If she'd been crying, it would have seemed more normal, though.
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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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Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.
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Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.
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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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Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.
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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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In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that I would necessarily have gotten anywhere anyway. But it definitely set me back to be in so much pain.
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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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[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.
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Desire is a word I'm tired of. I've been living with that word for years. Yes, of course, we're all desiring machines. I have sometimes wondered what people would want, if there were no advertising. And death, what other subject is there? It's the subject. It's our subject. It's the great human dilemma, that we die and know we will.
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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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My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.
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