Lynne Tillman Quotes About Essays

Quotes about: Essays

• I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not encouraged to think; you're encouraged to feel. This is a broad, broad statement. So I think those women who go out on a limb and publish essays are highly conscious of how they are writing their opinions.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Thinking, Opinion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 something, and then I figure out how to do it. I don't write essays that kind of just sustain one thought. I tend to move around because that's what I like.

  Lynne Tillman

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think there's much more privileging of the new in art. I think people want to think they privilege the new in writing, but I agree with Virginia Woolf. She wrote a great essay called "Craftsmanship" about how difficult it is to use new words. It's really hard, but you see them coming in because obviously, if you're going to write... I mean, even to write "cell phone" in a novel - it's so boring.

  Lynne Tillman

  Art, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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