Lydia Davis Quotes

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.

Art is not in some far-off place.

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.

If you think of something, do it.

Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.