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There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.
Lynne Tillman
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Lynne Tillman
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, You know, your stories are really voice-driven, and I guess I knew that already, but it's so true that I can't get something going unless I can hear the voice.
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I'm the author of my own misery.
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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 learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.
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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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Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.
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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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People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences.
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I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.
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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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I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.
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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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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 like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.
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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 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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Certainly there will always be stories.
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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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[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 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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