Quote by Lydia Davis Download Open image ““because she couldn’t write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn”” — Lydia Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.” — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She… — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
“Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own… — Baum Copy Share Image
“She wrote his name on a piece of paper and lit it with a match. The letters curled as they turned dark and misshapen… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how to start - she… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been asked about them so often that in the end she had started a blacklist of banned words to which everyone could refer. Every time someone thought of a new one, she unflinchingly wrote it down...… — Hilary McKay Copy Share
“and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.” — Jane Austen 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
“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
“He does not trust her: she will claim to be in a bad mood when she is not, and then require him to be… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
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