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Lydia Millet Quotes

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1968

Topics

Best Think Write Suspense Fiction

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

Artist Kind Never Been Known Riff

To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.

Good Confidence Beginning Win Start

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Childhood Pain People Think Laugh

They have increased readership, which is good, but I personally am not very turned on by e-books. The physical book has always meant something to me. I'm like the horse who goes back to the stall. I'm not that adventurous.

Good Me Book Horse Back Adventurous

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Business Great Rich Portrait You Go

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Religion Religious Fascinated

I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Time Myself Who Sort Lot Nigerian

I love Chicago. I think it's an amazing city.

Love City Amazing Think Chicago

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Phyllis McGinley

Alone Mirror Hair Fly Trying Down

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

Democracy Out Old-Fashioned Working

Whoever I'm with, that's the person I'm with. That's the way I'm wired.

Person Way Wired Whoever

Regardless of where life has taken me, I'm always excited to come back to Canada. I will forever be a proud Canadian. In fact, a lot of my success comes from the fact that I come from a diverse place, and that translates into my comedy. I will always be Team Canada.

Life Success Me Team Proud Comedy

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