About Grace Paley: Grace Paley was an American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist.
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...
I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I give you death. Perfectly sensible, thing-owning, Church-fearing neighbours flop their hands over their ears at the soun...
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.
To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
Poets take themselves very seriously.
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it.
