The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.
Lydia DavisI donโt like to hurt peopleโs feelings, and I donโt like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
Lydia Davis