128 Quotes by Lydia Millet

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.

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

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

I'm for any woman who loves sloths.

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.

No one bought my screenplays.

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