Lydia Millet Quotes
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Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.
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I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.
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Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.
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You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
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Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
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I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.
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Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
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I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.
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If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.
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At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.
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Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
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L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
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In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.
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Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin.
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At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
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I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?
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It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
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If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.
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For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states.
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The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.
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Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
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Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.
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After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live.
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I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.