Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Jokes are great capsules of information. I think they should never be censored. They often are offensive - and we're offended by… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because… — 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
I'm not just interested in the thoughts I have, but also in others' thoughts, and why not carry those forward? That's why… — 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
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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