Grace Paley Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.

  Grace Paley

  Fun, Lying, Writing

• …I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

  Grace Paley

  Beautiful, Lying, Writing

• The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

  Grace Paley

  Lying, Stories, Wrong Words

• 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.

  Grace Paley

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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