“Everything was sharper, clearer, and closer, as though, before, I had been seeing only little bits at a time, not all of… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“A true nothing is not competitive. But I don't think I'm being competitive when I say it. I am feeling truly humble,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“One important thing was not to forget what he hoped to achieve in life. Another important thing was not to confuse a… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Maybe I had been alone in that apartment so much by then that I had retreated into some kind of inner, unsociable… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“But on that particular day I did not even begin to feel interested in this chore, and was suddenly more deeply bored than I… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“because she couldn’t write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn” — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Everything was sharper, clearer, and closer, as though, before, I had been seeing only little bits at a time, not all of it, of… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“He did not know exactly when to thank his hostess after attending a dinner or a weekend party. In his uncertainty, he would thank… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“There was no confusion of our bodies. I knew which arm was his and which mine, and which leg, and which shoulder. I did… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“So it’s not really $100 a shot because it goes on all day, from the start when you wake up and feel her body… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“The people of the town, though, remained strangers: I could not realize that I must be seeing some of them over and over again,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
