Lynne Tillman Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures and also because of the kind of books I write. Everything really counts on sales. I started out with a bigger press, my first few books. But I've always done some things with independent and small presses and small magazines and I always will.

  Lynne Tillman

  Book, Writing, Independent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Lynne Tillman

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am interested in people, and I am interested enough in people that I want to be friends with a lot of people and know about their lives. So I'm not a hermit. I'm also interested in writing about other things. It goes on and on. I sometimes wish that I had a different personality. But then I would write different types of books.

  Lynne Tillman

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Writers don't want to appear to be stupid. I don't know - maybe people become writers so that they can prove that they're not. Of course getting a book published doesn't mean that they're not stupid. At a certain point you have to stop trying to prove something and write because you need to think about something and want to communicate, in a very broad sense.

  Lynne Tillman

  Stupid, Book, Writing

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

• I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also want to bring this into my characters, who also read and think. There's that great quote from Virginia Woolf - it's very simple: "...books continue each other." I think when you're a writer, you're also, hopefully, a reader, and you're bringing those earlier works into your work.

  Lynne Tillman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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

• 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.

  Lynne Tillman

  Believe, Book, Thinking

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

• 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.

  Lynne Tillman

  Book, Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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