Writing fiction Quotes by Lynne Tillman

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

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

— Lynne Tillman

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

[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

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

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

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

— Lynne Tillman

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

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

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

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