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Writing Quotes by Grace Paley
- 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,…
- Write from what you know into what you don't know.
- I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
- 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…
- You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
- 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 go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are…
- Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
- 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…
- You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold