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If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

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Lynne Tillman

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.

Eight, Pleasure, Reading, Seven, Writing
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I'm the author of my own misery.

Author, Misery

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.

Believe, Book, Certain, Kind, Writing

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

Interested, Not Interested, Realism, Reality

It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But I don't want it to be meaningless. I want it to actually say what I want it to say, and so I'm thinking about it again and again and again.

Actually, Beautiful, Point, Thinking, Writing

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. I'm not a realist in that way.

Considered, People, Simply, Space, Writing
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