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" Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes. "
Lydia Millet
Wildlife
Wilderness
Creating
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" Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing. "
Lydia Millet
Myself
Try
Love
" 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
" Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available. "
Lydia Millet
Sometimes
Want
Make
" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "
Lydia Millet
Life
Delicate
Seek
" 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. "
Lydia Millet
Club
United States
Society
" Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature? "
Lydia Millet
Extinction
Register
Our
" 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
" Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language. "
Lydia Millet
Proper
Other
Names
" I love irony. "
Lydia Millet
Love
I Love
Irony
" When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness. "
Lydia Millet
America
American
Blindness
" It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed. "
Lydia Millet
Me
American
Time
" You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced! "
Lydia Millet
Fear
Need
You
" 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
" In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed. "
Lydia Millet
American
Did
Drop
" At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time. "
Lydia Millet
Writing
Show
Tell
" I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. "
Lydia Millet
Because
Write
Had
" It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book. "
Lydia Millet
Write
Lighthearted
Friendly
" I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding. "
Lydia Millet
Clever
Like
Names
" 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
" People who are obsessed amuse me. "
Lydia Millet
Obsessed
Who
People
" Most of my books have something to do with L.A. "
Lydia Millet
Most
Books
Something
" You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel. "
Lydia Millet
People
Book
Feel
" Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this. "
Lydia Millet
Children
Art
Parents
" I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in. "
Lydia Millet
Walk
Outdoors
Sky
" 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
" I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people. "
Lydia Millet
People
Insane
Always
" Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile scuffles over fuel extraction in vulnerable wild places like the offshore Arctic, political leaders have ignored fossil fuel production as a necessary piece of climate strategy. "
Lydia Millet
Strategy
Wild
Over
" 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
" There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room. "
Lydia Millet
Literature
Space
Play
" 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