Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along,… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground,… — Grace Paley Copy Share
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep… — Grace Paley Copy Share
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. — Grace Paley Copy Share
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley Copy Share
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and… — Grace Paley Copy Share
…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… — Grace Paley Copy Share
I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't… — Grace Paley Copy Share
“... plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone,… — Grace Paley Copy Share
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write… — Grace Paley Copy Share
