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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.
Lynne Tillman
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Lynne Tillman
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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More quotes by Lynne Tillman
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
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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 it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.
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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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Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.
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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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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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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.
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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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There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.
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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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Obviously the Internet makes everything easier - you get people's addresses and so on and everything seems much more accessible.
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Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be realistic in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.
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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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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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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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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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Kafka wrote the great line: my education has damaged me in ways I do not even know. And that's always been a signature motto for me.
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