I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words. — 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 Image
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 Image
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. — 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 wedding and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 to relate. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
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