Lydia Millet Quotes

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Lydia Millet

Profession : Novelist

Birth : December 5, 1968

We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'

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Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?

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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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My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.

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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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The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.

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On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.

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Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.

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You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!

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I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

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I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

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I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.

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I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.

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I'm for any woman who loves sloths.

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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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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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No one bought my screenplays.

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I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

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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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One man's holy is another woman's sublime.

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