Lynne Tillman Quotes - Page 2

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• You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there's possibility. I see children coming into the world as an expression of this. Sometimes, not always - it can just be somebody that wasn't on the birth control pill or didn't have access to abortion. But I usually see a wanted child as a sign of optimism, and I like that.

  Lynne Tillman

  Children, Thinking, Optimism

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

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• I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.

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  Believe, Book, Thinking

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

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• I think the slowness of exchange is over, and the idea of waiting for a response - that's gone. People don't want to wait. It's all this instantaneity. That's fine. But it also makes writing different, if you're writing for an instant exchange compared with being able to have time for more reflection.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Reflection, Thinking

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

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• Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I don't want to forget these people, ever. That's very much a part of my still being alive - to remember those who aren't here anymore.

  Lynne Tillman

  People, Mysterious, Ghost

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

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• For me, the experience of not living in America was recognizing that I was American. You don't think about yourself being so culturally encoded, so nationally stamped; you don't discover that when you're a tourist for a month. You see how you reflect the place you're from. When I came back from living in Europe, I was very struck by how I didn't see America as the center of the world in the same way. It's very easy to slip back because America is so powerful. But any place you live is the center of the world.

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  Powerful, Thinking, World

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

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• I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic.

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  Art, Looks, Thorough

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.

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  Pain, Sadness, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

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  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a friend, you're going to keep going back to that conversation.

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  Thinking, Conversation, Certain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

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  Class, People, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

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  Kind, Sentences, Subjects

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences.

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  Class, Differences, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

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  Animal, Behavior, Humans

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.

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  Memories, Ideas, Brain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.

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  Believe, Thinking, Traumatic Experiences

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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 never finish a drawing.

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  Artist, Class, Drawing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

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  People, Use, Determine

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In depression, you're flattened. Your energy level is gone. When I'm anxious, I tend to have more energy. But it depends on the nature of the anxiety. The anxiety to finish something would seem to be more productive than the anxiety that says, "You're feeling sick."

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  Sick, Anxiety, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

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  Writing, Thinking, May

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A book coming out into the world can be a harsh, harsh time. And your feelings are on the line. Everything that publication is about is really not what your writing is about. Your writing is coming out of something else, and publication and being in the public are something else. And those of us who have published, in whatever way we're published, are very fortunate.

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  Book, Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.

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  New York, College, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.

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  Believe, Writing, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

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  People, Stories, Focused

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic.

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  Writing, Space, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

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