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If they finally move, is it because they are warm enough, or is it that they are stiff, or bored?
— Lydia Davis
If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, I'd like to do this, or that. — Lydia Davis
Beyond the hand holding this book that I'm reading, I see another hand lying idle and slightly out of focus - my extra hand.
— Lydia Davis
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.
— Lydia Davis
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
— Lydia Davis
I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.
— Lydia Davis
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
— Lydia Davis
I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.
— Lydia Davis
The old vacuum cleaner keeps dying on herover and over
until at last the cleaning woman
scares it by yelling:
"Motherfucker! — Lydia Davis
Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.
— Lydia Davis
Not a man of habits, though he wished to be,
— Lydia Davis
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.
— Lydia Davis
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.
— Lydia Davis
The people in your happy memories have to be the same people who want to have you in their own happy memories.
— Lydia Davis
When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.
— Lydia Davis
They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.
— Lydia Davis
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
— Lydia Davis
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.
— Lydia Davis
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
— Lydia Davis
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
— Lydia Davis
I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!
— Lydia Davis
Idea For A Short Documentary FilmRepresentatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging. — Lydia Davis
I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.
— Lydia Davis
Art is not in some far-off place.
— Lydia Davis
I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.
— Lydia Davis
Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean.
— Lydia Davis
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.
— Lydia Davis
The Busy RoadI am so used to it by now
that when the traffic falls silent,
I think a storm is coming. — Lydia Davis
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.
— Lydia Davis
Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
— Lydia Davis
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
— Lydia Davis
