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It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.

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Lynne Tillman

I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T. S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center of the world, and that honesty meant saying what I thought and always being direct.

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I'm the author of my own misery.

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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.

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

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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.

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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. I'm not a realist in that way.

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