Moments Quotes by Lynne Tillman

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I think about material that could work in the novel or story as I'm writing. I see if I can get there through what's happening with the character. But it's by inclination. It's not "At this moment this will happen." Usually with my characters you can't tell what has induced them to do anything. That's because, from my understanding of…

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If you're a "good" teacher, somebody who is responsible or careful, teaching takes time. Teaching is performative. Students nowadays evaluate you and…

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I'm not just interested in the thoughts I have, but also in others' thoughts, and why not carry those forward? That's why…

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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, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.

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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…

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I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

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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…

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[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…

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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…

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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…

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I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.

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In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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