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" I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course. "
Lydia Millet
Go
Wanted
Write
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" As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president. "
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President
" Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group. "
Lydia Millet
Suicide
Light
Health
" No one bought my screenplays. "
Lydia Millet
Bought
Screenplays
" It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed. "
Lydia Millet
Me
American
Time
" 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
" 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
" L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally. "
Lydia Millet
Perfect
America
Because
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Politicians
People
Changes
" There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions. "
Lydia Millet
Interested
Contradictions
Always
" 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
" 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
" What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve. "
Lydia Millet
Heart
Sleeve
Makes
" I think that young readers have very strong stomachs. "
Lydia Millet
I Think
Think
Strong
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Turn
Capitalism
Change
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Edge
Sympathy
Did
" 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
" 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
" After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live. "
Lydia Millet
American
Live
Generation
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Wolves
Gray
Time
" I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking. "
Lydia Millet
My Own
Day
Focus
" More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa. "
Lydia Millet
Research
Two
Africa
" I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line. "
Lydia Millet
Used
Try
Now
" I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding. "
Lydia Millet
Clever
Like
Names
" Most of my books have something to do with L.A. "
Lydia Millet
Most
Books
Something
" 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
" Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this. "
Lydia Millet
Children
Art
Parents
" 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
" 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
" People who are obsessed amuse me. "
Lydia Millet
Obsessed
Who
People
" 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. "
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Up
Yellowstone
Risk