Kafka wrote the great line: "my education has damaged me in ways I do not even know." And that's always been a signature motto for me.
Lynne TillmanAs a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
Lynne TillmanWanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully, writing.
Lynne TillmanBeing in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.
Lynne Tillman