Quotes by Grace Paley

Grace Paley

Art is too long, and life is too short.

Art

Life Is Too Short

Long

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

Obligation

Saws

Stories

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.

Done

Screw Ups

Screws

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Deserve

Destiny

Real

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Generations

Meaning Of Life

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

Energy

Interesting

People

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don’t have a big academic background at all.

People

Trying

Writing

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it’s a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Believe

Fads

Ideas

I didn’t write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Fiction

Past

Writing

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.

Lying

Thinking

Writing

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Action

Age

America

Art

Believe

Book

Breaths

Careers

Children

Christian

Cities

Country

Couple

Courage

Crafts

Deserve

Destiny

Divides

Don't Lie

Done

Doors

Energy

Eye

Fads

Father

Features

Feet

Fiction

Forget

Four

Fun

Games

Generations

Healthy

Heart

Heartbreaking

Home

House

Husband

Ideas

Important

Interesting

Jobs

Joyce

Junk

Kids

Knows

Language

Library

Life Is

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Quotes by Grace Paley

Grace Paley

Art is too long, and life is too short.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

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.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don’t have a big academic background at all.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it’s a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

I didn’t write any fiction until I was past thirty.

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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