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" I'm for any woman who loves sloths. "
Lydia Millet
Loves
Who
Woman
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" 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
" 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
" Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing. "
Lydia Millet
Myself
Try
Love
" I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. "
Lydia Millet
Because
Write
Had
" People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city. "
Lydia Millet
Hate
People
Resentment
" I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line. "
Lydia Millet
Used
Try
Now
" The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask. "
Lydia Millet
Being
You
Either
" I love irony. "
Lydia Millet
Love
I Love
Irony
" 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
" I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof. "
Lydia Millet
You
Out
King
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan. "
Lydia Millet
Loved
Understand
Her
" Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language. "
Lydia Millet
Proper
Other
Names
" 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
" Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that. "
Lydia Millet
Position
Not Interested
Cynical
" No one bought my screenplays. "
Lydia Millet
Bought
Screenplays
" 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
" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "
Lydia Millet
Life
Delicate
Seek
" I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House? "
Lydia Millet
Any
White House
White
" 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
" In December 2011, a wild gray wolf set foot in California, the first sighting in almost a century. He'd wandered in from Oregon, looking for a mate. "
Lydia Millet
Wild
Gray
Looking
" 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
" When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program. "
Lydia Millet
Three
Time
City
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Oak
Result
Office
" You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel. "
Lydia Millet
People
Book
Feel