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Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.
Lynne Tillman
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Lynne Tillman
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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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[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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I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.
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I'm the author of my own misery.
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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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You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.
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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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I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.
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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 think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.
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There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.
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People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.
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I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.
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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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It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.
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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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As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
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