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Lydia Davis

American

July 15, 1947

Writer

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

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I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.

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I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.

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All of the little entries in 'The Cows' were written in an irregular way. There might be one or two done one day, and then two weeks might go by or four weeks, and then they were put in an order or sequence.

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I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.

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