Grace Paley - Work Quotes

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He had a habit... of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber's snake, could work its way through the ear down the throat, halfway to my heart.

Grace Paley

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now — solar, wind — for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

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.

Grace Paley

My last girl was Jewish, which is often a warm kind of girl, concerned about food intake and employability. They don't like you to work too hard, I understand, until you're hooked and then, you bastard, sweat!

Grace Paley