Lydia Davis Quotes

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Lydia Davis

I looked at whale jawbones in the museum this morning. Then I did some shopping. Whenever I go into the drugstore it seems that many people are buying condoms and motion sickness medicine.

Lydia Davis

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

Lydia Davis