LD Lydia Davis Author “When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.” Trying Used Form ♥ 3
LD Lydia Davis Author “We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.” Thinking Form Affinity ♥ 3
LD Lydia Davis Author “I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew what they were getting in for.” Moving Form Willing ♥ 3
Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher “What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .” Form Given Accepted ♥ 3