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Lydia Millet
American
Novelist
Born:
Dec 5
,
1968
About
American
Any
People
Time
You
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If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.
Lydia Millet
Love
Way
Kind
Find
Go
Opposite
To Love
Popular
I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.
Lydia Millet
Strong
Young
Think
Readers
Very
I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.
Lydia Millet
Writing
Enough
Approach
Way
Calculating
I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.
Lydia Millet
Picture
Characters
Tend
Actor
Actress
I'm for any woman who loves sloths.
Lydia Millet
Woman
Any
Loves
Who
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
Rich
Think
Marketplace
Vein
Domestic
Dominated
Decades
American
Fiction
Literary
Literary Fiction
Realism
Now
You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
Lydia Millet
You
Book
People
More
More People
Feel
Like
Your
Luckier
Lucky
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
Work
You
Creative
Trivial
Never
Feel
Lightly
Doing
Hire
Intended
Should
Creative Work
Even
Mundane
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.
Lydia Millet
Half
Trapped
Living
States
Colonization
Bears
Poisoned
Least
Were
Western
Mexico
Historically
Shot
European
United
United States
Alaska
Brink
Extinction
Most of my books have something to do with L.A.
Lydia Millet
Books
Something
Most
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
Rest
Big
State
Typical
Phoenix
City
Tend
Towns
Big City
Resentment
People who are obsessed amuse me.
Lydia Millet
Me
People
Obsessed
Who
Amuse
As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
Lydia Millet
President
Wears
Guy
He
Soon
Like
Becomes
Clinton
Greatness
Regular
Bill
Bill Clinton
Regular Guy
Mantle
Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.
Lydia Millet
Sometimes
Everyone
Laugh
Make
Want
Available
Desires
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