Tuesday 25 June 2013

Lydia Davis

As Lydia Davis – a writer I have happily just discovered – says: 

'A character in one of my stories may resemble me in certain ways, through a selection of biographical facts or psychological characteristics, but she is something different, a creation.'

Indeed.

2 comments:

susan t. landry said...

i think lydia davis is amazing.

Crafty Green Poet said...

oh exactly, if only more non-writers understood that!