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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
American Writer
Born: Jul 15, 1947
First Just People Think Translation Writing
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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
Hurt People Matter Feelings Other Writers Knock Like Principle
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. Lydia Davis
Time Writing Long Own Way My Own No Time Had Almost Reaction Proust Were Very Stop Want Stories Sentences Translating Reasons Started Two
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing! Lydia Davis
Day You Writing Money Job Definitely Recommend Would Day Job Developing Like Make Expect
I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it. Lydia Davis
Will Beginning Down Out About Pare Write End Very Close In The End Story Notebook Much
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were. Lydia Davis
Wish Kind Classroom Sort Although Am Were Person Often Either Teaching Who Basically Creep
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. Lydia Davis
Natural Word Too Much Too Way Kind Follow Intuitively Pretty Like Without Questioning Them Much Interests Natural Way
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly. Lydia Davis
Music You First Difficult Put Come Like Pieces Concert Reader Sort Arranging Surprised Want Ordering After Story Intermission Each
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection. Lydia Davis
Writing Enough Collection Collections Pieces Until Short Just Really Planned Keep
I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. Lydia Davis
First Teens Madame Read Twenties Early
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 the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story. Lydia Davis
Writing Problems First Style Translation Seem Glance Obvious Readers Caught Up Quickly Get Quite May Stop After Story Translator Noticing Right Adapt
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really. Lydia Davis
Better Given More Course Text Any May Really Translations Number
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. Lydia Davis
Good Own Think Horn Some My Own Write Overlooked Years Years Ago End Did Blow Quite Story Novels

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