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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
Grace Paley
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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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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.
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Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
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Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
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To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
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A joke is necessary at this time.
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I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.
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I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
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I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.
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Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
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I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
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I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
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Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
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My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.
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To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.
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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.
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I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.
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Art's too long and life's too short.
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Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.
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You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
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