American - Novelist | December 5, 1968 -
Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs.
Lydia Millet
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Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
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If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.
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The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.
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On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.
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Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.
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You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!
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I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.
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I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.
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I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
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Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.
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I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.
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