Lynne Tillman Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.

  Lynne Tillman

  Reading, Writing, Eight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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 think that becomes journalism. Mostly I don't try to explain to readers who somebody is - I just write about the somebody. I'm thinking through ideas. And I have the sense that, if you're reading this, you have some interest.

  Lynne Tillman

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

• I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also want to bring this into my characters, who also read and think. There's that great quote from Virginia Woolf - it's very simple: "...books continue each other." I think when you're a writer, you're also, hopefully, a reader, and you're bringing those earlier works into your work.

  Lynne Tillman

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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