Grace Paley
Grace Paley
Grace Paleywas an American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 December 1922
CountryUnited States of America
writing numbers omission
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.
writing crafts knows
Write from what you know into what you don't know.
writing movement knows
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
writing add four
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 don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.
writing should-have done
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.
writing plot stories
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
writing needs
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
writing knows
We write about what we don't know about what we know....
writing past fiction
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
writing vocabulary useless
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
writing justice possibility
I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
real writing vocabulary
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 really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.
writing people trying
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
writing people sometimes
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.