As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
Lynne TillmanBeing in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.
Lynne TillmanI unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center of the world, and that honesty meant saying what I thought and always being direct.
Lynne TillmanI think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.
Lynne TillmanI've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I think that becomes journalism. Mostly I don't try to explain to readers who somebody is - I just write about the somebody. I'm thinking through ideas. And I have the sense that, if you're reading this, you have some interest.
Lynne Tillman