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Lydia Millet Quotes

I love irony.

– Lydia Millet

I like to amuse myself.

– Lydia Millet

As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He’s the president.

– Lydia Millet

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

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

I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.

– Lydia Millet

Snark describes a cynical position, and I’m not interested in that.

– Lydia Millet

Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group.

– Lydia Millet

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

My motto is, if you love something, don’t set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.

– Lydia Millet

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I’m always interested in contradictions.

– Lydia Millet

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

– Lydia Millet

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

– Lydia Millet

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

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

I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It’s enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.

– Lydia Millet

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

– Lydia Millet

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

– Lydia Millet

I’ve always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

– Lydia Millet

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

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

– Lydia Millet

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

About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people – and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.

– Lydia Millet

Most of my books have something to do with L.A.

– Lydia Millet

Pugs are creatures of habit.

– Lydia Millet

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.

– Lydia Millet

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

I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals – and write, of course.

– Lydia Millet

People who are obsessed amuse me.

– Lydia Millet

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

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