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Lydia Davis Quotes

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 15, 1947

Topics

Money Day Job Writing You Expect

Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.'

Name Wall Street Wall Street Most

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

Competition Free Person California

A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge.

Johnathan Joseph

Challenge Face Back Down Go Never

Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it's more of a Mano a Mano; it's more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Family Great Time Cooking Training

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

Love Today Day Feel Artist Summer

Whether it's 'Fish' or 'Annabel Scheme' or 'The Truth About the East Wind,' I often find myself crafting custom containers to hold the kind of content I want to create.

Truth Myself Wind Fish Find Create

I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.

I Am Kind Write Begin Writer Plot

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Past You Seventy Forty Half Nearly

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Women Think Say Ask Everything

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

Work Painting American Years Well

It's always good to be underestimated.

Good Always Underestimated

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

Believe I Can Say I Believe Become

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