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Lynne Tillman quotes: I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

Lynne Tillman quotes: 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.

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

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

Lynne Tillman quotes: There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

Lynne Tillman quotes: 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.

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.

Lynne Tillman quotes: Certainly there will always be stories,

Certainly there will always be stories,

Lynne Tillman quotes: 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.

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.

Lynne Tillman quotes: 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.

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.

Lynne Tillman quotes: It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Lynne Tillman quotes: Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Lynne Tillman quotes: I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

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

Lynne Tillman quotes: I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

Lynne Tillman quotes: I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

Lynne Tillman quotes: My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.

My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.

Lynne Tillman quotes: People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

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

Lynne Tillman quotes: People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

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

Lynne Tillman quotes: I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

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

Lynne Tillman quotes: As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.