Lynne Tillman Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• [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 desires and hopes.

  Lynne Tillman

  Reality, Desire, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Lynne Tillman

  Reality, Realism, Not Interested

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still want that golden apple. And maybe it's the reality principle that has hit me. I believe that a career is very different from writing. My career is a certain kind of career.

  Lynne Tillman

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think about material that could work in the novel or story as I'm writing. I see if I can get there through what's happening with the character. But it's by inclination. It's not "At this moment this will happen." Usually with my characters you can't tell what has induced them to do anything. That's because, from my understanding of reality - which is always subjective - everything is overdetermined.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Character, Reality

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

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