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Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

~Lydia Davis

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I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.

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I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

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Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

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Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The more the better, in the end.

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I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.

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If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

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I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 15th, 1947

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