Thinking Quotes by Grace Paley

Grace Paley

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

Grace Paley

I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn’t live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends “got relief.” That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.

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Thinking

Grace Paley

The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can’t imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, ‘What should I do now?’ I always say, ‘Keep a low overhead. You’re not going to make a lot of money.’ And the next thing I say: ‘Don’t live with a person who doesn’t respect your work.’ That’s the most important thing—that’s more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.

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Grace Paley

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

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Thinking Quotes by Grace Paley

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.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

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