I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical… — 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… — 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
I think that sense of surprise, that you don't know where something is going, or what's going to happen, even as you… — 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
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
I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on… — 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
Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
There's not usually one reason why we do anything and, in fact, often we don't know why we've done what we've done,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there's possibility. I see children coming into the world as an… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a… — 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
Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Now that I'm an older woman, I'm so much more aware of the changes - almost too aware. I feel sorry for… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I also think that the issue of doubt and uncertainty is always a good thing and I question why I believe what… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think about material that could work in the novel or story as I'm writing. I see if I can get there… — 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
For me, the experience of not living in America was recognizing that I was American. You don't think about yourself being so… — 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 learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
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
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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