"I started writing the one-sentence stories when I……" — Lydia Davis
"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 writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences."
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36 Quotes by Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis has 36 quotes on this site.
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We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we…
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We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a…
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You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure…
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The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that…
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I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort…
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No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If…
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To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary…
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Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I…
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But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe…
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Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.
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I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois…
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I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for…
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More Long Quotes
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and…
— Dario Argento
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
— Karen Armstrong
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
— Neil Armstrong
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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
— Darren Aronofsky
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This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to…
— Joe Arpaio
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He…
— Isaac Asimov
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this…
— Chinua Achebe
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