Lydia Davis Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Lydia Davis on Wise Famous Quotes.
I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.
Beyond the hand holding this book that I'm reading, I see another hand lying idle and slightly out of focus - my extra hand.
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.
The old vacuum cleaner keeps dying on her
over and over
until at last the cleaning woman
scares it by yelling:
"Motherfucker!
over and over
until at last the cleaning woman
scares it by yelling:
"Motherfucker!
I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.
He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for them to do.
The people in your happy memories have to be the same people who want to have you in their own happy memories.
When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.
So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!
Idea For A Short Documentary Film
Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.
Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.
I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.
For a moment it seemed incomprehensible to me that anyone would build a whole city when all that was needed was a room for her.
She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses but also his.
I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
A woman has written yet another story that is not interesting, though it has a hurricane in it, and a hurricane usually promises to be interesting.
This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.
Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.
Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.
Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.