Lydia Millet Quotes
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About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.
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People who are obsessed amuse me.
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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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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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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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I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.
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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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Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
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Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
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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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You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
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I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.
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At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.
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Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.
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At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
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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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I love irony.
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I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?
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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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It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
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'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.
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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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I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.
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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.