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

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

Lydia Millet

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

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Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes.

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I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking.

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You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.

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

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The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.

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

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One man's holy is another woman's sublime.

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

Lydia Millet

In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.

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

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We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

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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.

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

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

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I don't write the same book twice.

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

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Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.

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Pugs are creatures of habit.

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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.

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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.

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I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof.

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Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

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No one bought my screenplays.

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If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.

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I like to amuse myself.

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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.

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'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.

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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.

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

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People who are obsessed amuse me.

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On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.

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If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.

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

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

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