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Very Quotes by Lydia Davis
- I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one,…
- I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will…
- I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own…
- Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could…
- I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who…
- I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.
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