We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.
Lydia DavisTags: writing narrative short-story
I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
Lydia DavisTags: humor communication boring talking
If you think of something, do it.
Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.
Tags: accomplishment depression idleness terror writer-s-block self-sabotage
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
Lydia DavisTags: writing postmodernism narrative-theory
Art is not in some far-off place.
Lydia DavisTags: art creativity writer-s-block
The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and sometimes I can figure out that it's not the truth and sometimes I don't know and never know, and sometimes just because he says it to me over and over again I am convinced it is the truth because I don't believe he would repeat a lie so often. Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry at me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves her or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.
Lydia DavisTags: truth deception lie lying deceiving
So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.
Lydia DavisTags: addiction
Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.
Lydia DavisIdea For A Short Documentary Film
Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.
Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
Lydia DavisTags: food diet vegan vegetarian cooking taste chef cuisine foods
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