“My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.” SometimesBodyAttentionLaughingMy FriendsPaidMaintenance Author:Lynne Tillman
“In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that I would necessarily have gotten anywhere anyway. But it definitely set me back to be in so much pain.” WritingSometimesPainSittingPracticalsSitting Down Author:Lynne Tillman
“I think I'm too indoctrinated. I'm going to use everything I can, and I think if I used an advertisement in that one, it would be yet another way to connect the current day with Wharton. Wharton has been perceived sometimes as being too upper class; Wharton was an extraordinary social thinker. As relevant today as anyone, so she uses some language that isn't current, but to me, I'm so happy about that because I get so bored with the 100 words that people mostly use.” PeopleThinkingSometimesTodayLanguageExtraordinaryBoredThinkerRelevant Author:Lynne Tillman
“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.” PeopleWritingBookDifferentSometimesEnoughWishPersonality Author:Lynne Tillman
“You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there's possibility. I see children coming into the world as an expression of this. Sometimes, not always - it can just be somebody that wasn't on the birth control pill or didn't have access to abortion. But I usually see a wanted child as a sign of optimism, and I like that.” ThinkingWorldChildrenSometimesPossibilityBirthOptimismAbortion Author:Lynne Tillman
“Desire is a word I'm tired of. I've been living with that word for years. Yes, of course, we're all desiring machines. I have sometimes wondered what people would want, if there were no advertising. And death, what other subject is there? It's the subject. It's our subject. It's the great human dilemma, that we die and know we will.” PeopleSometimesDesireTiredAdvertisingDilemma Author:Lynne Tillman
“Laughing and crying are very similar. Sometimes people go from laughing to crying, or crying to laughing. I remember being at someone's wedding and she couldn't stop laughing, through the whole ceremony. If she'd been crying, it would have seemed more "normal," though.” PeopleSometimesRememberLaughingCryCeremony Author:Lynne Tillman
