The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.
Lydia DavisI don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.
Lydia DavisI am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
Lydia DavisWhy don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
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