Lydia Davis Quotes

“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.”

Lydia Davis

“If you think of something, do it.

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

Lydia Davis

“Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.”

Lydia Davis

Source: The Collected Stories

“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”

Lydia Davis

Source: The Collected Stories

“Art is not in some far-off place.”

Lydia Davis

Source: The Collected Stories