I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line. Lydia Millet Read Quote
In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears’ awesome strength. Lydia Millet Read Quote
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. Lydia Millet Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I’m doing. Lydia Millet Read Quote
