My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“But then his parents changed. A year of California had changed them. They stopped sending money. Greg was forced to go out… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and listened to… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I actually don't have...opinions. I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. I can discern that certain things… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Sara would call one of those cops on horses a motherfucker. The cop would avert his eyes. Sara would ask directions for the wild… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“The hamster friend said being able to do front rolls didn't make the hamster as good as Bruce Lee, which was not a true… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, he made screaming noises at night in his room, like a deranged person. He threw his electrical pencil sharpener at the… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Don't be stupid and awkward," the dolphin says. "You want to walk together or not?" "You are a stupid piece of shit. Go away… — tao lin Copy Share Image
I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
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