“At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing...” — Lydia Millet Quote

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I am showing my emotions sometimes, and I can't help it. That's the way I am.”

“Nothing really prevented me from showing Catman as bi, but it's how I thought of him.”

“I'm showing people what I'm made of, and if people don't want to accept that and face the facts, I can't help that.”