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Grace Paley Quotes

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else Picture Quote #1

Art is too long, and life is too short, Picture Quote #1

It’s a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time Picture Quote #1

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation Picture Quote #1

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine Picture Quote #1

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women’s movement. I didn’t know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation Picture Quote #1

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My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster’s or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next Picture Quote #1

I’ve started many novels, and they all ended on page seven Picture Quote #1

Art’s too long and life’s too short Picture Quote #1

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible Picture Quote #1

The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life Picture Quote #1

I write for the still, small possibility of justice Picture Quote #1

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That’s the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they’re extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they’re just average with a good education Picture Quote #1

We write about what we don’t know about what we know Picture Quote #1

If you want to do things, do things Picture Quote #1

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world Picture Quote #1

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something Picture Quote #1

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty Picture Quote #1

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But what’s a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that’s all Picture Quote #1

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life Picture Quote #1

I don’t have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It’s just on the basis of my books that I’ve been hired at any of the places I’ve been Picture Quote #1

When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it’s different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize Picture Quote #1

What I generally tell a class is that if you’re not interested in anybody else’s work but your own, take another class Picture Quote #1

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me Picture Quote #1

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The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work. Don’t lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write Picture Quote #1

Whatever you do, life don’t stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream Picture Quote #1

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people’s classes Picture Quote #1

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen Picture Quote #1

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That’s why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog Picture Quote #1

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important Picture Quote #1

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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else (Grace Paley Quotes) Art is too long, and life is too short, (Grace Paley Quotes) It’s a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. (Grace Paley Quotes) For me, the meaning of life is the next generation (Grace Paley Quotes) I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine (Grace Paley Quotes) I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women’s movement. I didn’t know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation (Grace Paley Quotes) My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster’s or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next (Grace Paley Quotes) I’ve started many novels, and they all ended on page seven (Grace Paley Quotes) Art’s too long and life’s too short (Grace Paley Quotes) Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible (Grace Paley Quotes) The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life (Grace Paley Quotes) I write for the still, small possibility of justice (Grace Paley Quotes) That’s the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they’re extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they’re just average with a good education (Grace Paley Quotes) We write about what we don’t know about what we know (Grace Paley Quotes) If you want to do things, do things (Grace Paley Quotes) Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world (Grace Paley Quotes) You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something (Grace Paley Quotes) In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty (Grace Paley Quotes) But what’s a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that’s all (Grace Paley Quotes) My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. (Grace Paley Quotes) I don’t have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It’s just on the basis of my books that I’ve been hired at any of the places I’ve been. (Grace Paley Quotes) When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it’s different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize. (Grace Paley Quotes) What I generally tell a class is that if you’re not interested in anybody else’s work but your own, take another class. (Grace Paley Quotes) I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me. (Grace Paley Quotes) The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work. Don’t lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write. (Grace Paley Quotes) Whatever you do, life don’t stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. (Grace Paley Quotes) I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people’s classes. (Grace Paley Quotes) Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. (Grace Paley Quotes) Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That’s why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. (Grace Paley Quotes) In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important. (Grace Paley Quotes)

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