Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president. "
Lydia Millet
Guy
Like
President
Related Quotes:
" If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial. "
Lydia Millet
Feel
You
Work
" The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk. "
Lydia Millet
Up
Yellowstone
Risk
" I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom. "
Lydia Millet
Write
Best
Suspense
" There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room. "
Lydia Millet
Literature
Space
Play
" The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing. "
Lydia Millet
Play
Free
Gift
" When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness. "
Lydia Millet
America
American
Blindness
" At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time. "
Lydia Millet
Writing
Show
Tell
" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "
Lydia Millet
Life
Delicate
Seek
" The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting. "
Lydia Millet
Try
Hunting
Legal
" I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts. "
Lydia Millet
Quality
Epic
Going
" I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line. "
Lydia Millet
Used
Try
Now
" Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs. "
Lydia Millet
Safe
Space
Relationships
" In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim. "
Lydia Millet
Victim
Women
Children
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Think
Rich
Realism
" When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults. "
Lydia Millet
Superhero
Book
Genius
" Most of my books have something to do with L.A. "
Lydia Millet
Most
Books
Something
" I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses. "
Lydia Millet
Characters
Tend
Picture
" Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' stands out for its rich entertainment, its darkness, and its lurid pleasures. Its vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate. "
Lydia Millet
Say
Colors
Darkness
" I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil. "
Lydia Millet
Worry
Way
Evil
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Animals
Landscape
Beginning
" If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps. "
Lydia Millet
Dinosaurs
Blue
Son
" Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that. "
Lydia Millet
Position
Not Interested
Cynical
" It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book. "
Lydia Millet
Write
Lighthearted
Friendly
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Country
River
Park
" African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two. "
Lydia Millet
Two
Single
Been
" We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness. "
Lydia Millet
Courage
Teach
Curiosity
" Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes. "
Lydia Millet
Cry
Weekends
Trophy
" I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes. "
Lydia Millet
Power
Dark
You
" If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily. "
Lydia Millet
Find
Love
Opposite
" We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.' "
Lydia Millet
You
Sometimes
Fly