Grace Paley is not a writer whose work I know, but I was struck by what Joan Silber said she’d learnt from her old creative writing teacher:
CRITICAL MASS: 2004 National Book Award Finalist Joan Silber on Grace Paley and Living a Writer’s Life

…daily life and all its textures and all its hour by hour decisions were pretty fucking important.

(from Maud Newton Nextbook)

I like the ‘pretty fucking important’ bit. Amen.