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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.

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Lydia Davis

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.

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Lydia Davis

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.

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Lydia Davis

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text – the more the better, really.

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Lydia Davis

The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person – the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.

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Lydia Davis

I first read ‘Madame Bovary’ in my teens or early twenties.

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Lydia Davis

I wrote the first draft of ‘Madame Bovary’ without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.

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Lydia Davis

Collections aren’t really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

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Lydia Davis

All of the little entries in ‘The Cows’ were written in an irregular way. There might be one or two done one day, and then two weeks might go by or four weeks, and then they were put in an order or sequence.

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Lydia Davis

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that’s normal.

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Lydia Davis

I find teaching – I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

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Lydia Davis

I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody’s interest.

– Lydia Davis

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