“If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.” IfsWritingLooksBookStudentsCriticismInstanceNarrativeLiterary CriticismPhds Author:Tao Lin
“I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.” PeopleWantBookUseReadingDrugExpensiveHotelReading BooksLots Of Money Author:Tao Lin
“My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."” SaidBookLike YouProsePublishersDakotaMileage Author:Tao Lin
“I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't think I was similar to him. But it seems like people just compare you to anyone, pretty much.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingBookSeemsPagesCompare Author:Tao Lin
“I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's really funny. With this book, since I'm opening it at random and immediately interested, I don't feel the need to read more than I want to read, in that there's not, like, a plot that leads me along. So I can stop whenever.” WantNeedsFeelsI CanBookOpeningPlotBiographiesBathroomLeading Me Author:Tao Lin
“I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things. I don't think having an internet presence helps financially.” ThinkingWritingChildrenBookHelpingUseLyingInternetBedAccountsChairsSwimListening To MusicBlogsWebsite Author:Tao Lin
“I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection with people my age I wouldn't have written six books about feeling depressed, alienated, lonely. If I did I would have many friends and feel connected with them and probably be a happy person who has a real job.” PeopleBookRealFeelingsAgeLonelyHappy Person Author:Tao Lin
“I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things.” ThinkingWritingChildrenBookLyingSwimListening To MusicWebsite Author:Tao Lin
“When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.” IfsThinkingTryingSaidBookUseAnswersTalkingDialogueTalking To Someone Book:Shoplifting from American Apparel Source: Shoplifting from American Apparel
“If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.” IfsThinkingBookHardSeemsReadingStuffBrainInformationCriticize Author:Tao Lin
