"I 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 Davis

#Notebook Quotes #Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.”

Source : Statement made during International Geophysical Year (IGY) operations in 1957, inscribed on the Byrd Memorial at McMurdo Station, Antartica, 1957.
“There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it”
“I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am at my happiest when I'm problem solving and a large part of writing is for me a lovely labor in problem solving. Every act of discovery in writing involves a process of figuring out why I'm not seeing what I need to see. Niggling feelings, discomforts, a sense that you've forgotten or overlooked something, a sudden curiosity about what if here? - these are priceless. They are the bases of problems and lead the way.”
“I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
“I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.”
“I donâ€™t like to talk to people, because I canâ€™t express myself satisfactorily. I donâ€™t say the things I mean.”
“We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.”

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