I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in safety. A great risk in writing is imagining you have something to protect. Playing it safe to placate… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Laughing and crying are very similar. Sometimes people go from laughing to crying, or crying to laughing. I remember being at someone's… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think some people are not interesting to themselves. They're the sad, resigned folk. When people call themselves ordinary - "I'm just… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I am interested in people, and I am interested enough in people that I want to be friends with a lot of… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think the slowness of exchange is over, and the idea of waiting for a response - that's gone. People don't want… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think I'm too indoctrinated. I'm going to use everything I can, and I think if I used an advertisement in that… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think there's much more privileging of the new in art. I think people want to think they privilege the new in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Writers don't want to appear to be stupid. I don't know - maybe people become writers so that they can prove that… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
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.… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
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… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
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… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
[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… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
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… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
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… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share
