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

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

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

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

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast. — Quintus Ennius

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

Certainly there will always be stories, — Lynne Tillman

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

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

Fashion and interior design are one and the same. — Iris Apfel

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

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense. — Seal

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

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough. — Cornelia Parker

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate. — George Herbert

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

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

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

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

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

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead. — Lynne Tillman

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

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