I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

- Lydia Davis

Art is not in some far-off place.

- Lydia Davis

The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is li…

- Lydia Davis

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem dif…

- Lydia Davis

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

- Lydia Davis

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…

- Lydia Davis

Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries…

- Lydia Davis

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

- Lydia Davis

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

- Lydia Davis