All 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,… Best
- I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. Antagonism
- Write from what you know into what you don't know. Crafts
- Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet? Anything Yet
- The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story. Inside
- To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. All
- I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. Begin
- Art is too long, and life is too short, Art
- 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,… All
- Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others. Connects
- I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You… Add
- I often see through things right to the apparition itself. Apparition
- I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. Believe
- Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. Courage
- All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. All
- I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. Began
- The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. Business
- Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. Gloomy
- You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. Inspirational
- There is a long time in me between knowing and telling. Inspirational