Lydia Davis
Related DEYTH BANGER ANTHONY T. HINCKS OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH OLIVER GOLDSMITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re... GEORGE GISSING Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN DORIS LESSING EARL WARREN EARL WARREN EARL WARREN THOMAS HARRIS DEYTH BANGER SARA SHEPARD It takes a long time to grow an old friend. JOHN LEONARD DEYTH BANGER ANONYMOUS DEYTH BANGER To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second t... SELWYN CHAMPION L.M. MONTGOMERY JULIAN BARNES Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II JENNY HAN You never know, this could be my last one, ... Not because I want it to be, but who knows what can h... MARY PIERCE ITZHAK PERLMAN DEYTH BANGER My friend and I looked at each other as we got on and said, 'Brakes,' because we smelled them. It wa... ERIC POE B. B. KING Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, ... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI SHEL SILVERSTEIN My children are old enough that I have more time. It is time to step up. JULIE NIELSEN STEPHEN KING I got it (the putter) out of my garage and it was just like an old friend, MARK ROE CHARLES DICKENS Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK SCOTT WOLF SCOTT WOLF There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked... JESSE KELLERMAN Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... GISELE BUNDCHEN CECELIA AHERN At the time I was being molested, I thought I was the only one. My father controlled everything in o... PATTI FEUEREISEN Just do it ! Just don't waste your time learning how to do it ! EPHDAN ANTHONY T. HINCKS ROBERT G. INGERSOLL I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wif... JASON ALDEAN Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE P.G. WODEHOUSE DEYTH BANGER DAVID THEWLIS Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA Then one of my coaches told me to just enjoy it because it was the last time. So I was thinking abou... IAN SHANNON TONI MORRISON ZUBIN MEHTA VIEW FROM A HILLJOHN TOTTENHAM MICHELLE DOCKERY I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but sti... OKKY MADASARI It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig... JIM GARRISON DAVID BERGEN I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I sha... JONATHAN DEE I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON AMBROSE BURNSIDE I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it t... ERNEST GAINES It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right perso... BRUCE FORSYTH MOTHER TERESA I usually have trouble sticking my back walkover, back walkover together. But I stuck it this time. ... BIANCA LOFFREDO JULIA GLASS TOBA BETA PAULO COELHO CAITLYN SIEHL Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I... TRACEY GOLD It had not been the first time that we had said something like this to each other. It was not like g... JAYSON JAMES I remember a time when I was rejected for speaking my truth. The rejection hurt very much. I kept go... JOYCE VISSELL I was the running joke in Miami, they were cutting me and recalling me so many times. I had six or s... ETHAN ALBRIGHT I'm happy to get through it. I wasn't feeling good all day and I got tired pretty fast. I've beaten ... BRANDON HERRINGTON Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I ge... TODD MCFARLANE CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE CHANG-RAE LEE YOKO ONO ROBIN HOBB It was based on each school having its own computer. That was something of a disadvantage, but we co... BILL SCHOENENBERGER I spent the most time writing and creating this project than I have on most. It has my best work and... JENNY PHILLIPS It's difficult to stay focused each time and do it each time. MAXIM MARININ GINA GREENLEE DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I have said it a thousand times before, and now I say it the third and the last time. NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK And this note was a jittery time bomb, ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day firecely... DANIEL HANDLER JODI MEADOWS THOMAS HELM It will be nice to play against my old club again. I look back fondly at my time there, that club wa... ALEX RAE I told them my concerns of how Kyle walked out of the school unnoticed and how my friend came by and... KRISTIE BAKER He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes LORETTA LIVINGSTONE KARL MARLANTES Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes ... K. WEBSTER I have been saddened a whole life time, it will not bother me any longer BEN OAK JOHNNY DEPP The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN
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...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what ... 
Everyone has a gift.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I ... 
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re... 
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re... 
I read this over today, for the first time since I wrote it. It's full of nostalgia, every word load... 
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou... 
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou... 
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... 
There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past... 
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it 
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It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying. 
I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend. 
If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it. 
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,... 
Although I cannot see your face
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. 
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tra... 
When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women bangi... 
When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women bang... 
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I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know
Why be greedy when you can have it all. 
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A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last n... 
It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not r... 
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. 
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In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete.... 
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When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... 
I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts grow... 
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... 
It ends or it doesn't.
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered '... 
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence... 
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Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. 
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on th... 
It's difficult to focus on my studies when my best friend is struggling to get through the hour."
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. 
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If you think of something, do it.
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When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness. 
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. 
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ... 
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no... 
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. 