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There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.
Grace Paley
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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
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The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
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Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.
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