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My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
— Lydia Davis
Tags: narrative, them, little, sometimes

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If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.
— Lydia Davis
Tags: writing, stop, problems, style
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
— Lydia Davis
Tags: more, person, good, work
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.
— Lydia Davis
Tags: writing, always, think, work
Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
— Lydia Davis
Tags: text, may, more, better
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.
— Lydia Davis
Tags: translation, text, unfaithful, bad, people
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