Lydia Davis Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Writing, Two, Brain

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• 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

  Rereading, Mail, Speed

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Thinking, Vocabulary

  "Lydia Davis hints at move to microblogging fiction" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

  Lydia Davis

  Simple, Narrative, Different

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry with me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves me or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.

  Lydia Davis

  Breakup, Doe, Want

  Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.7, Macmillan

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• There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

  Lydia Davis

  Math, Principles, Abstract

  Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January, 2008.

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