[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… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
If you're a "good" teacher, somebody who is responsible or careful, teaching takes time. Teaching is performative. Students nowadays evaluate you and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures… — 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
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 learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
A book coming out into the world can be a harsh, harsh time. And your feelings are on the line. Everything that… — 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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