Lydia Davis Quotes

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.

Lydia Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGoodPersonThreeMoreTwo

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

Joel Osteen

GodJusticeThinkRightI Think

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

Andrew Wyeth

MePaintingYouSexPersonalNever

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

FreedomYouDoneBeen

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

Steve Wozniak

LieFamousPersonKnowKnowingTell

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.

Mathieu Amalric

FunnyGoodFunSayingBelieveYou

I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.

Michelle Moran

CollegeBookNeverFirstGotDeal

I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all I can say is that I think I've made a much better grandfather... I don't think I was ready to be a father to be honest.

Michael Morpurgo

FatherThinkBetterI CanReadySay

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

Mitt Romney

WishAttentionLostDisappointedMay

I live by the business model that there is a better than, a less than, or a different than. Those are the three categories. I chose to be different than. The one that's different than will stand out with the proper work ethic.

Diamond Dallas Page

WorkLiveBusinessStandBetterOut

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Dr. Seuss

ChildBookYouNeverWildOld

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Chinua Achebe

FoodYourselfDoorColorSomeone

I am a fiercely independent person, and I am no one's pawn.

Christine Blasey Ford

I AmPersonIndependentPawnAm

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