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" 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

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Hunting

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" Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language. "

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

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" I think that young readers have very strong stomachs. "

" 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. "

" Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing. "

" African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two. "

" The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask. "

" 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. "

" If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for. "

" The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn't about settling an arcane DNA argument; it's about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures. "

" I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. "

" I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line. "

" 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. "

" If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily. "

" 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. "

" At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time. "

" 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. "

" No one bought my screenplays. "

Lydia Millet

Bought

Screenplays

" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "

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

" I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom. "

" I like to amuse myself. "

Lydia Millet

Myself

Amuse

" I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan. "

" When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness. "

" 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. "

" L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally. "

" At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now. "

Lydia Millet

Resilient

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" Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction. "

" 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. "

" What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve. "